Continuous shifts, extended overtime, poor work safety, overcrowded dormitories...it was a toxic labour cocktail set to explode, and it did. Workers rose up en masse in protest, demanding that their employers and the multinational company they were contracted to take action to end their misery. This is not something that happened in India recently, but in China, at a plant assembling Apple devices, over a decade ago. In the years that followed, this sequence of events would play out again and again in factories across that country, forcing the Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, American and other multinationals operating there to take...