While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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    21 days ago

    “Peasant” has much more wide-reaching connotations than just powerlessness.