Hard labour for cheap stuff

Book review of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods

Five chapters into Made in China, Amelia Pang’s investigation of forced labour practices in China, her main subject — a Falun Gong practitioner named Sun Yi — is tasked with making decorative paper mushrooms for export, it is rumoured, to Europe. It is early during his stay in a forced labour camp called Masanjia, and the assignment is supposed to be a cushy one. How difficult can it be to make paper mushrooms? Sun, however, soon scrapes his fingers rubbing the paper together to get the desired fake-mushroom feel. His cuts grow infected, but he keeps working, trying to fill