‘We the Workers’: New film depicts crackdown on China’s labour advocates

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Film-maker Wen Hai had intended to portray the gritty lives of Chinese migrants toiling in factories in his documentary “We The Workers”, but wound up chronicling a gathering crackdown on courageous labour groups.

The 174-minute film serves as a record of the waning months for unofficial labour organisations, run mostly by current and former workers, whose lobbying for better pay and treatment in southern China unnerved authorities.