Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Rest of World about Chinese student interns

Without formal contracts and channels to voice grievances, students are easily subject to exploitation and abuse, such as long work hours and safety hazards, according to Jenny Chan, a sociologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University who studied student interns in the manufacturing sector. “They are unfree labor,” Chan told Rest of World. “Can they talk to their teacher about problems about work, if the teacher was the one who sent them in?”

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