As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn.
Foxconn Is Still a Hard Place to Work - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
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From the article:
“He talks to both factory workers and businessmen, gathering chilling information about the situation at the factory, discovering suicide nets, 36-hour shifts, 27-year-old burn outs with dismembered limbs and underage workers. Wouldn’t Apple, a company obsessed with details — so obsessed it even programmed Siri to avert uncomfortable questions about its origins, as host Ira Glass discovered — pay attention to these very problematic details, wonders Daisey.”
Yes. They would. Much of what we know about conditions at Foxconn have come from Apple’s own reports. And they continue to address the problem. It’s perfectly acceptable to say that they’re not doing enough, but it’s unreasonable to say they’re ignoring the problem.
I think it’s also probably unhelpful to single out Foxconn. It may be diverting attention from a bigger problem. It seems entirely likely that this is a problem with many Chinese suppliers. It also seems possible that, due to the actions of companies like Apple, Foxconn might actually be better, although not necessarily much better, than other Chinese contractors.
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