In pictures: Toy story

Employees work five or six days a week from 0800 to 1700, including 90 minutes off for lunch. Many work an extra three hours’ overtime each day, bringing their monthly salary to about 1,000 yuan ($124; £70).

Workers live 12 to a room, with only a small space to store their belongings. The bed space costs 45 yuan a month.

Deng Feng Shan, 22, from Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, reads a romanctic novel during her lunch break, which the workers take in shifts so production can continue uninterrupted.