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David Moser meets two guests to discuss China's labor conditions, and the reasons behind a spate of suicides at the Shenzhen company, Foxconn.

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As spring has turned to summer here in China, problems between workers and management at multinational corporations in the south of the country have started to heat up.

First a string of suicides at their factories brought Foxconn, the country's largest contract electronics manufacturer, to its knees.

Then a strike by workers at a Honda transmission assembly plant brought work at all four of the company's factories in China to a halt.

To try to get a sense of what these incidents mean and where things may be heading, we have on the line Geoffrey Crothall from the Hong Kong-based NGO China Labour Bulletin, which seeks to defend and promote the rights of workers in China.