In Part 2 of the video, the speaker says, 'Journalistic coverage of Chinese factories...plays up this relationship between the workers and the products they make. 'Plays up' probably means:

In Part 2 of the video, the speaker says, 'For example, an entry-level assembly line worker in China in an iPhone plant would have to shell out two and a half months' wages for an iPhone'. 'Shell out probably means:

In Part 2 of the video, the speaker says, 'The workers I got to know had a curiously abstract relationship with the product of their labor'. 'Abstract' probably means:

In Part 2 of the video, the speaker says, 'Slowly it was dawning on me that these handbags were made by their factory....' Dawn on' probably means:

In Part 2 of the video, the speaker says, 'eventually landing a lucrative post in the purchasing department of a hardware factory'. 'Lucrative' probably means: