[lbo-talk] Apple's Rotten Core

[Wojtek S]

Good piece.  However, the FT article in question identifies Mr. Cook,
not Mr. Jobs with adding Asian sweatshops to Apple's corporate
structure.  I wonder how much "charismatic leaders" like Jobs are
involved in running companies they "lead."  I suspect that in many
cases they are just PR figureheads that give their companies a "human
face" whereas the everyday business is run by unsavory grey eminences:
beancounters and wage slave drivers.

Wojtek

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "None of the eulogies for Steve Jobs are likely to have much to say about the people who made his fortune writes Liam Mac Uaid. Apple has pioneered an aggressive anti-union strategy both in the Chinese factories that manufacture its gadgets and the Apple stores that sell them. The company’s story is more one of hyper-exploitation than affable geekery.
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> "An article in the Financial Times (FT) lifted the lid on just how Steve Jobs’ “readiness to humiliate and embarrass others” keeps Silicon Valley psychologists busy restoring the mental health of his former employees; how he has created a company which drives hyper-exploited workers in Chinese factories to suicide and grinds profits out of the university graduates who work in his shops “counting their blessings to have a job”.
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> "Just because Jobs and his company make the cutting edge technological status symbols of the 21st century there is no reason they can’t resemble the mill owners of 19th century Manchester."
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> Full article:  http://socialistresistance.org/2457/apples-rotten-core
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