The deadly fire at a poultry slaughterhouse in Jilin is China's worst factory blaze in living memory. The death toll already exceeds that of the fire at a toy factory in Shenzhen in 1993 in which 87 people died, says Geoffrey Crothall, a spokesman for the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. "There are cases in the coal mine industry, for example, where more than 100 miners died in an explosion, but the extent of the death toll in this tragedy is very unusual," he said. China's central government has created thousands of workplace…