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After Tragedy, Apple Tries to Polish Image on Workers’ Rights

Anti-Foxconn protest in Hong Kong (iworld.com.my) Cross-posted from In These Times. Apple’s trademark is the intuitive elegance of its designs. Yet when it comes corporate and labor practices, Apple’s...

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Even With Daisey’s Lies Peeled Away, Apple’s Rotten Core Exposed

Activists pass out literature detailing Apple's connection to Foxconn. (MakeITFair) Cross-posted from In These Times. Apple’s brand glared in the media spotlight this past week, after the public...

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Apple’s Two Faces: Power Gaps Between Brazil and China Foxconn Workers

Cross-posted from In These Times. Activists pass out literature detailing Apple's connection to Foxconn. (MakeITFair) Apple presides over a global technology empire, but the economic landscapes it...

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Labor Activists Peer into Shadows of Apple’s Factory Empire

Photo: MakeITfair campaign, via flickr Cross-posted from In These Times. Our gadgets and tablets make our lives easier, but those palm-sized miracles of convenience are built by hard work in a...

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Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms

Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia / Creative Commons Originally posted at In These Times Apple wants you to know it’s working hard to fix the biggest bruise on its reputation: the treatment of workers in its...

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Foxconn Riot Flashes a Glimpse of China’s Slow-burning Labor Crisis

Originally posted at In These Times On September 23, in Taiyuan, China, about 2,000 workers erupted in a burst of anger, leaving a factory compound scarred with broken glass and flames. But the trouble...

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Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?

Carol Simpson Cartoon Work (www.cartoonwork.com) Originally posted at In These Times A few years ago, the multinational tech manufacturer Foxconn, a brand previously vaunted as a symbol of China’s...

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A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers

Originally posted at In These Times SACOM Apple protest, Hong Kong (Lennon Ying-Dah Wong via flickr / creative commons) With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has...

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More Bad Apple: Watchdog Exposes New Chinese Factory Abuses

The workers’ dormitories are often dirty and cramped, with eight to 12 workers in a room and often inadequate sanitation facilities, according to the China Labor Watch report. (Courtesy of China Labor...

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Exploitation Remains the Name of the Game at Dell’s Chinese Factories

Electronics assemblers in Shenzhen, China, where a recent report detailed substandard conditions at a Dell factory. (Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons) Originally published at In These Times There is...

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