About 75% of the world's toys come from China, where migrant workers are paid an average of $240 a month. Extreme poverty in rural China pushes people to move to urban areas in search of such employment. Michael Wolf, a German photographer, documented what he called The Real Toy Story, which depicts what life is like for workers as they create toys around the world. Michael Wolf's photos depict China's grueling toy factories. The photographer visited 5 factories in China, i.e. mainland China. In factories the workforce is predominantly migrant. The following research paper critically examines the feedback from Michael Wolf's analysis in relation to global capitalism, commodity chains and the manufacturing sector. Migrant labor is the result of the Chinese government issuing strict controls and regulations regarding migration between rural areas. and urban areas. As a result, most people illegally migrated to cities in search of work. These regulations were associated with the tethering system in which the government tied social rights such as education, housing, and health to the place of birth. However, as the country's economy transformed into a cheap, rural, market economy; work has become very vital and integral to achieving economic growth. Although the Chinese government has promised equal rights to all, most migrant workers have continued to work in poor conditions, with forced overtime, needless to note, they do not even have employment contracts or social security benefits. (Carter, 2007) In the workplace, living and working conditions are extremely poor. There are up to 6 Author Surname 3 people sharing very small and cramped dormitories and... half of the paper... prior introduction to the nature of global labor laws, the industrial relations system and the trade union structure. Given the direness of the problems plaguing the industrial relations system and trade union structure, workers themselves are usually involved in defining their own destiny. Solidarity, some people may not be completely convinced that even the Wolf's optimism is justified. Building a stronger labor movement, however, begins with an extremely accurate and concise understanding of current conditions and a vision of exactly what we would like them to be. Consequently, in both respects, the analysis is successful, as is the current condition of the thousands and millions of workers around the world who have greatly contributed to tripling the world's workforce in recent decades and centuries..