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Chinese Girls' Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches
ANSHAN, China — Each eyelash was assembled from 464 inch-long strands of human hair, delicately placed in a crisscross pattern on a thin strip of transparent glue. Completing a pair often took an hour. Even with 14-hour shifts most girls could not produce enough for a modest bonus.
"When we started to work, we realized there was no way to make money," said Ma Pinghui, 16. "They were trying to cheat us."
She and her friend Wei Qi, also 16 and also a Chinese farm girl barely out of junior high school, had been lured here by a South Korean boss who said he was prepared to pay $120 a month, a princely sum for unskilled peasants, to make false eyelashes.
Their local government labor bureau lent its support, recruiting workers and arranging a bus to take them to the big city of Anshan in northeastern China.
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