Payback Time in the Pearl River Factory Belt

(Shenzhen) – Standing in a light rain, dozens of young men and women quietly waited at the closed gates of a Foxconn Technology Group recruiting office.

One woman said she'd traveled from another electronics company factory nearby to check out Foxconn's offer to increase salaries by up to 2,000 yuan a month. She called that kind of pay "unbelievable" for an electronics plant in China's Pearl River Delta.