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Full referenceTen Million Working Days Lost. What the Strike Has Already Meant to Shanghai and China: A Huge Decrease in Productivity. Some Not At All Pleasant Reflexions (1925)
TypeJournal article
TitleTen Million Working Days Lost. What the Strike Has Already Meant to Shanghai and China: A Huge Decrease in Productivity. Some Not At All Pleasant Reflexions
Year1925
JournalNorth China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette
Start page210
LanguageEnglish
Keywordsstrike; conflict; worker; merchant; shipping; credit; waste; loss; fact; Shanghai; China
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North China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, August 22, 1925, p.210

Exploits the topos of China as a country without fact to justifiy the approximation (exaggeration) in estimating the losses caused by the Chinese workers' strike: "In a non-statistical country like this there can be no exactitude in the case as a matter of fact, no cast-iron statement of the number of workers on strike at any one time can be obtained; "

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