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OhioChick

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74. Uh-Oh...

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 10:24 PM

Sep 2012

Apple's New Foxconn Embarrassment

9/12/2012 @ 2:38PM

As Apple launches its much-anticipated new iPhone 5 today, news reports about conditions at the company’s manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Technology, are fueling renewed criticism of the labor practices that go into making Apple’s popular products. Yesterday’s New York Times had a detailed report about vocational students who were being virtually forced to work at Foxconn plants producing iPhones and their components. At the same time, a journalist at the Shanghai Evening Post (translated by m.i.c.gadget.com) went undercover and worked for 10 days at a Foxconn factory in Tai Yuan, where the iPhone 5 was being manufactured. He wrote about filthy, smelly, cockroach-infested dormitories, numbingly repetitive work and pressure to put in maximum overtime.

More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/09/12/apples-new-foxconn-embarrassment/

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