That day I went to have a meal with a friend near Sun Yat-sen University. After we had a nice meal, my friend suggested that I visit the nearby Guangzhou Textile City. I thought to myself that there is something else like this Guangzhou is such a big place, so I went there.
I wanted to go back after visiting here, but unexpectedly, I turned into a village next door and found another cave.
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A garment factory 10 steps away
The village I turned into was called Kangle Village. Looking at the name, I thought there would be many old people living there.
Who would have thought that there are nearly a thousand families hidden here? In the garment factory, inside the half-open door are not old people watching TV, but dozens of young people crowded inside operating textile machinery, with humming and roaring sounds coming one after another. There are several factories in one rental house, and the names of the factories on each floor are different.
There are many supermarkets and restaurants on the street. It was converted into a factory. Most of the workers who work hard are female, with a male to female ratio of about 1:2. Some factories are large, with an area of several hundred square meters and dozens of workers.
Some are small, one for each couple Be the boss and be the worker.
On a hot day at noon, workers do not shy away from suspicion. Just lie shirtless and sleep on the machine bed, stealing a half-day of leisure.
Researched the industrial structure of Kangle Village, here of factories are mainly engaged in garment manufacturing, accounting for 40% of all factories.
Because the rent here is cheap and it is close to the cloth market The close proximity has attracted a large number of immigrants to set up factories here. After merchants select fabrics at the cloth market, they will come to the factory in Kangle Village to place orders. There are many workers in the factory here, and they can get ready-made clothes in a short time. Over the years, a complete clothing industry chain has been formed here.
The village is mainly composed of Hubei people, and there are many advertisements for direct buses from Guangzhou to Hubei on the streets.
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Recruitment Gallery
On the main road of Kangyue Village, almost every alley has a sign saying “Recruitment Gallery”.
I came at the wrong time. It is said on the Internet that in March and April every year, the boss of the garment factory will stand on the street and display the salary for the workers to choose. Yes, not the boss When workers are chosen, it is the workers who choose their bosses.
CCTV also reported on the long recruitment queue here.
Because the order volume is unstable, the factory here They mainly recruit daily workers, which can control labor costs when there are few orders. The workers’ living conditions are to find a factory with orders and work for a day or two. After the boss delivers the goods, they go back to the streets to look for the next one. Factory with orders.
You can earn 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month after working on a daily basis, while some skilled masters can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
Even if the salary is not low, most young people I still don’t want to work. At the beginning of the year, a reporter interviewed a boss about the difficulty in recruiting workers. The following are the original words:
For example, the highest-paid lathe position in a garment factory. Studying hard requires half a year to a year. Now the people born in the 90s and 00s will not learn this thing at all. It is very tiring and the working hours are long. You have to work twelve or three hours a day, and it is very hard to earn more than 10,000 a month. ���The small garment factory that was originally located in Shahe has also been relocated. Dayuan Village is also a famous “Internet celebrity live broadcast village”. We visited it last year.
Human beings are like duckweeds without roots. They go wherever the wind blows. The number of digs is not bad. I drifted from Chaozhou, a third-tier town, to Guangzhou. I am lucky to do it. I have a self-media job that allows me to live in a community with air conditioning. Even if I can’t settle down, no one will chase me away.
These workers are different. They may come from a village under Xiantao City, Hubei Province. They have traveled 1,000 kilometers to come here. They suck cotton wool and work for more than 10 hours every day. The domestic women’s clothing industry has contributed light and heat. At night, they returned to the rental house, opened the dark door and fell asleep. They stayed in this dark place for several years. Now they have to embark on a wandering journey again, and they are in their 30s. , how long will we continue to wander, where is home? Everywhere is home.
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