Foxconn workers are striking again—this time in Chongqing. But you have to look at the map to see why this is an event of extraordinary significance. In a word, these strikes mean that the rice paddies of China have been nearly drained of cheap, docile labor. So the strikes in Chongqing are of global and potentially epochal significance. It was the two-decades-long flow … Continue reading Global Alert From Chongqing: Foxconn Strike Is An Epochal Inflection Point