They say that Chinese workers in factories supplying Wal-Mart are dying from guolaosi—“overwork death”—from working upwards of fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, for months on end in a frenzy to quickly and cheaply fill demand ...
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Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year.
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Her parents were told it was 'unknown death' and received a small sum in compensation. But the villagers said it was the new disease, guolaosi. Overwork death.
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Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year.
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