inaudible screaming

Recently, the news about high and persistent unemployment flushed all media. Though most west media claimed that because of the restrict economy policy, China experienced less shock, when the real truth below the appearance revealed, it is just like the inaudible screaming, always being ignored by big wave or event with devouring a generation of the working class.

While the first time, I went to Shenzhen to visit dd, passing through Dongwan, a world factory of clothes, shoes, toys, covered with just factories and high density low-skilled but workers, most of them are female and forced to drop from junior school. I heard a lot of truth report of their life. Every time I felt quite low and helpless, because I can't change their live or even little their situation.

For the owner of the factories, they are just a group of labors which can be replaced anytime. For the city, they were just barbarian visitors, though contributing to the prosperity of the city, not belonging to here, without corresponding respect and protection but being controlled and repelled. When they going back to hometown, although they feeling the status change, such welcome most comes from the money they bring back not means the warmth from family, and along with tedious and restriction.

They envy the city life style but can not be easily assimilated or identified. They were just in the middle of two different world, none of which belongs to them any more. They are lost in the fast moving economy machine and development of cities.

Most of the time, China's fast development is explained by the successful transformation from planned system to market system. In reality, what it does is just taking the example of the Capitalism in 19th century, combining the political power and market force to fast the process of capital transformation of labor, land, environment and all kinds of resources. But it takes two hundred years for Capitalism to complete this changes, when it squeezes into thirty years, you can imagine what kind of social reform it would bring to China.

The most grief thing is that they are trying to scream but ignored because they are just considered as the inevitable sacrifice of the success of economy. Now they face more serious situation, an economic crisis. Before they need to fight for their right. Although China has issued the new labour laws which would protect vulnerable workers and improve working conditions, because of this economic crisis, this agenda has been postponed. Moreover, most factories owners just close their factory and terminate all their workers, who need to struggle for survival.

While reading those news and watching pictures, I want to know what I can do for you.