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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
We might need to decide what constitutes mistreatment at this point. Not having a canteen seems like no big deal to me. Unpaid breaks also seem OK to me. Eleven hour working day not great but if I am being paid by the hour the more the better in my experience.
It is going to depend on your life experiences isn't it. A Chinese farm labourer will think Amazons employment conditions are heaven. Paris Hilton might find them a little onerous.
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There are advantages and disadvantages to an 11 hour workday. The disadvantages are clear; the advantage is that you get three days off every week.
I don't think that we ought to compare jobs in the developed world with jobs in China - but there are a lot of jobs in the 1st world where people are injured or killed. Hundreds of people are killed on the job in the UK every year, for example, so it seems a little myopic to focus on the conditions of a safe indoor job involving packing small boxes or pushing a trolley and loading it with books.