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Published April 6, 2015 10:30AM (EDT)

HOLD FOR STORY CHINA LABOR MOVEMENT In this March 26, 2015 photo, workers gather at one end of the factory floor as they strike at the Cuiheng Handbag Factory in Nanlang township in Zhongshan city in southern China's Guangdong Province. More than three decades after Beijing began economic reforms that let a market economy take root, the 168 million-strong force of China’s migrant workers _ who have left rice paddies and cornfields behind for factory and service jobs in bustling industrial cities _ are increasingly demanding their rights and a fair share of proceeds from the country’s now-slowing economic boom. (AP Photo/Didi Tang) (Didi Tang)
HOLD FOR STORY CHINA LABOR MOVEMENT In this March 26, 2015 photo, workers gather at one end of the factory floor as they strike at the Cuiheng Handbag Factory in Nanlang township in Zhongshan city in southern China's Guangdong Province. More than three decades after Beijing began economic reforms that let a market economy take root, the 168 million-strong force of China’s migrant workers _ who have left rice paddies and cornfields behind for factory and service jobs in bustling industrial cities _ are increasingly demanding their rights and a fair share of proceeds from the country’s now-slowing economic boom. (AP Photo/Didi Tang) (Didi Tang)

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