By the late 1960s, 561,563 people were factory workers. Most were either semi-skilled or unskilled, and had received no education beyond the primary level.
Because of the potential threat of cheap labour from China, the local workforce had to accept long hours and low wages. The riots in 1966 and 1967 were, to a certain extent, a refection of their discontent, as evidenced by the Government's efforts to improve labour conditions in the last few years of the decade.
Credit : History Museum of HK.
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