The exhibition illustrates the lives of millions of Chinese workers who produce cellphones, computers, clothes and other items purchased around the globe and their efforts to create their own organizations, their attempts to take hold of their own destiny through strikes and protests, and their self-expression in the form of poems, music and plays.
Friedman, who will introduce the exhibition at the opening event, said he was motivated to begin the collection nine years ago as labor organizations were being closed by the Chinese government. I was worried there was not going to be any centralized archive of the very important work that had happened in previous decades.
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