University for Migrant Workers | Tencent “Living”
Liu Guanguan—Tencent “Living”
Some 50 miles outside of Beijing is “Worker’s University,” a school founded in 2009 by a musician and former migrant worker named Sun Heng to help migrant workers “find their dignity and value in society.” Students trade their labor for classes. They work on a cooperative farm for six months in exchange for training in computer operation and repair, as well as lessons in Marxist ideology. Sun says that he was moved to establish the school after reading about migrant workers employed by Apple-supplier Foxconn who had committed suicide.
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Some 50 miles outside of Beijing is “Worker’s University,” a school founded in 2009 by a musician and former migrant worker named Sun Heng to help migrant workers “find their dignity and value in society.” Students trade their labor for classes. They work on a cooperative farm for six months in exchange for training in computer operation and repair, as well as lessons in Marxist ideology. Sun says that he was moved to establish the school after reading about migrant workers employed by Apple-supplier Foxconn who had committed suicide.