Perilous conditions and more importantly future health problems due to the poor environmental conditions will certainly remain a huge burden in China. There will be frequent uprisings but unless there's pressure on the Western company that sells the product the likelihood of improvement in working conditions low. Having said that I am totally in favor of putting every Western company under the magnifying lens and holding them accountable.
Having said all that there's no denying that manufacturing in China in spite of being exploitative has taken many people out of abject poverty. I'm by no means justifying the means by the ends, I'm just pointing out a phenomenon. Eventually by rules of simple economics the wages will go up, maybe not fairly, but they will increase which in turn will enable other nations to compete.
The fundamental set up of the Chinese establishment makes it easy to suppress labor and facilitates high scale corruption due to lack of accountability. However it's important to realize that the Chinese economic system as it stands today isn't based on complete suppression as it once was but rather on incentives which makes me believe that the manufacturing in China will not end up being a perpetual system of slave labor.
Is this the type of economic surge India would like to replicate slave driving workers?
Must India sell its Soul to be a Total Whole like China?
No this system will never work in India because the fundamental set up of the system disallows this which is why drawing comparisons with China is pointless. If India does in fact want to promote manufacturing (and it really should) then it has to work within its own system through adequate land and labor reform. It is not nearly as convenient as the Chinese model but that is the price a society has to pay when it wishes to be a free democratic republic. As things stand here's the problem with labor in India. Labor in the formal economy is abysmal because of corrupt labor unions which are an impediment to productivity. On the other hand there is a ridiculously high level of exploitation and abuse (including indentured servitude) in the informal economic sector where people are forced to go when they cannot find work in the paralyzed formal sector. Furthermore the set up in the informal sector is inherently resistive to modernization and mechanization because laborers can be exploited with impunity. As a result you end up with a large mass of impoverished laborers living in squalid conditions whose productivity level is capped due to the lack of technology.