does this exclude board and food? My impression was that it did -- that typically Chinese workers get food and housing in addition to their cash pay -- but I c

does this exclude board and food? My impression was that it did -- that typically Chinese workers get food and housing in addition to their cash pay -- but I can't find the blog post that told me so, so maybe I'm wrong. I thought it was Bunnie Huang's series on Chinese manufacturing, but I can't find the reference in there. I live down the street from Lowell, Massachusetts, which in the early 19th century was the Shenzhen of New England. Based on what I know of the history of industrial America, this article sounds really familiar, right down to the company dorms where extremely young workers eat company food and sleep on company beds. This is how factory towns work. AFAIK it's how they have always worked.