Unfortunately, the Southern Metropolis Daily isn't translated or
online. The story, is like something out of 19th Century
England. "Young people – some aged under 10 – are said to have
been discovered being bought and sold at a street market in
Sichuan, one of rural China's most overpopulated provinces.
According to investigative reporters, the children stood in line
as they were assessed like cattle, before being driven on trucks
to factories in the Pearl River Delta, China's manufacturing
heartland."So we have slave markets in the most densely
populated province in China, which is incidentally the
industrial heart of the nation. Province officials have made
arrests of 4 individuals involved in the illegal labor
trafficking and rescued more than 100 children, according to
NYTimes reports. No doubt pressure has mounted about these sorts
of things with the Olympics about to be held at the center of
the new industrial world. But will a few Lady Bountifuls address
the underlying issues of population and capital