[lbo-talk] Apple's Chinese workers

Ferenc Molnar ferenc_molnar at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 15 21:29:19 PST 2011


Apple sent Timothy D. Cook, its chief operating officer, to China last year to review the operations of a principal manufacturing partner after nearly a dozen suicides by factory employees raised concerns about working conditions... Apple said that Mr. Cook and a team of independent suicide prevention experts conducted a review of Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen in June and made a series of recommendations for changes in August. Mr. Cook and the team also reviewed changes that Foxconn had put in place, which included “hiring a large number of psychological counselors, establishing a 24-hour care center and even attaching large nets to the factory buildings to prevent impulsive suicides"...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/apple-says-chinese-supplier-made-changes-after-suicides/

More on Foxconn's "worker dorms":

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/technology/26foxconn.html



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