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from the May 01, 2006 edition

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HOT MARKET: Chinese workers are getting pickier about wages and benefits.
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China's factories hit an unlikely shortage: labor
By Simon Montlake | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
DONGGUAN, CHINA – One of the defining myths of modern China - that it has a bottomless well of unskilled, low-wage laborers - is coming apart at the seams. And hardest hit are the southern coastal cities that produce much of America's consumer bounty."