Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory:
Having multiple ipods, iphones, and a macbook, I knew they were manufactured in China under less than ideal conditions. I did not however know or think about how these conditions really are.
I listened to episode 454 of This American Life podcast, where a self described Apple enthusiast travels to China to visit foxconn after seeing some photos taken by workers testing out an iphone's camera.
Most of our electronics comes from Shenzhen, China, Mr Daisy toured some of these plants and found mini cities housing hundreds of thousands of workers, working 12-16 hour shifts and some of them being as young as 12 years old, doing repetitive tasks thousands of times until their bodies and hands are wrecked. Since labor is so cheap there, that anything that can be assembled or built by hand is done.
None of these companies who buy their service, Apple, Dell, have demanded better working conditions or minimum age, wages of workers.
Maybe these companies are like us and don't want to think about it...
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