Clothing Market: Uncle Of The Labor Market: The "Marginal Man" Who Sells "Coolies"

Survive in a crack
"Annual turnover exceeds 1 trillion" - in April 2019, Dayang, Guangzhou daily, wrote this exciting speech in an article on Guangzhou wholesale market.
But in the wholesale market, the "trillions of myths" have been achieved, leaving the survival space for the cargo workers to be smaller and smaller.
When he first came to the thirteen line more than 20 years ago, he received several tons of clothes every day, and then pulled the tricycle from the cultural park to the Sha Sha ferry terminal. He could earn three hundred or four hundred of his daily fare.
More than thirteen lines. At that time, China was ready to join the WTO. The wholesale market in Guangzhou was very hot. Many migrant workers who worked in the South had worked for pulling goods.
In the age of no logistics company or courier brother, the most important part of the wholesale industry chain is the cargo workers. Even after the emergence of logistics express, cargo workers are still the "human flesh bridge" to solve the "last mile problem" between wholesale stalls and logistics companies.
Until the rise of the Internet, "leather" their "fate".
"13 or 14 years or so." Old Zhou said.
With the popularity of smart phones and the rise of online shopping, a series of chain reactions have begun to appear in the wholesale market. Prices are transparent, and the trend is changing rapidly. Buyers or sellers do not stock up. The factory has also moved to the outside of the province to take orders online.
Not only is clothing, but also various wholesale markets are undergoing a revolution triggered by the Internet. All kinds of factors superimpose on the workers who pull the goods, which is the less and less goods they pull everyday.
Once the "demand exceeds supply" of goods workers, gradually become surplus. Even if the leading line of the wholesale market is thirteen lines and one German road, it is all "waiting for a rabbit" to pull goods workers.
That is the most chaotic time of the "order of rivers and lakes". In order to grab the business, some people have been derogating from their status and messing up the market. Some people have been packing up and looting, resulting in goods being unable to circulate, and even some people have been fighting for a few dollars.
It's not just businessmen but also citizens. In February, a group of pictures were taken on the B station of Bai Xiao Sheng, showing the current situation of Guangzhou clothing wholesale market in the current depression. One of the netizens wrote, "... (Shahe) better shut down! Dirty and messy!
In fact, in the past few years, many media and citizens have denounced many problems in the wholesale market of Guangzhou, such as the "living and changing warehouse" of Yide Road, the noise nuisance of the thirteen elements, and the "hidden danger" of people's south. All the spearheads refer to the "unruly" cargo workers.
Rectification and wave after wave. In 2015, Shahe, thirteen banks and so on all set up a unified management logistics company, and also launched a similar "drip" APP, the official explanation: "allocate resources, orderly competition".
But smart phones haven't touched several times, but they are still using the phone book to talk business with paper and pens. In the crevice of the times, he felt more and more that his former set did not work.
"They have Internet access. There are few people standing there waiting for us to ask. In the past, the business was so bad that it could make some money before the new year. In the past few years, it has been getting worse and worse. Two thousand or three thousand a month, how?
Lao Zhou is just a microcosm. There are more "veteran employees" who have been struggling for decades like this. Nowadays, they do not even talk about "supporting their families". Lao Zhou said he had borrowed 500 yuan to get home for the Chinese new year this year, and seven came back early to start work.
I didn't expect it to be two months.