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...
View ArticleEven 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...
View ArticleApple’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...
View ArticleLabor 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...
View ArticleAudit 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...
View ArticleFoxconn 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleExploitation 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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