In China
"Controlled rural migrant flows, through the fixed-resident system, created a ‘
dormitory labour regime' where workers are regularly housed in factory dormitories. This allows labour to be deployed quickly to fill orders through forced overtime and lengthening the workweek (Smith and Pun 2006). Also, it exercise[s] control over workers' accommodation, food, social and leisure pursuits, and travel (Pun and Smith 2007). Existing research details the militaristic and despotic nature of factory discipline, including rigid controls over movement, monetary penalties for missing productivity targets, and frequently delayed or failed payment of wages. (Lee 1998; Chan 2001; Pun 2005)."
(Montgomerie, J.
(Re)Politicizing Inflation Policy: A Global Political Economy Perspective ,
CRESC Working Paper Series, no. 53, 2008, visited 13-06-2011)