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businessinsider.com - 7/27/2009

Life Inside A Chinese Gadget Factory

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A Foxconn factory A Chinese company called Foxconn builds gadgets for Apple, Nintendo, HP and others. On July 9, one of its factory workers lost track of an iPhone prototype. Days later, this worker, named Sun Danyong, leapt off a 12-story building and fell to his death in an apparent suicide. ...

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Foxconn Employee Describes His Oppressed Life from Inside the Factories [Production]
Gizmodo — ... or highly skilled. After a week of training, we concluded that at Foxconn, we shouldn't treat ourselves as human beings, we are just machines. During the week, we also had a health examination, a very simple blood test, a blood pressure test and a vision test. We did not receive any results afterwards. To read more on a business culture that will go so far as to fine its employees for uneaten rice in the cafeteria, hit the link. [China Labor Watch via Silicon Alley Insider] ...

Foxconn en el punto de mira y Apple sin reaccionar
Gizmología — ... ella, en la que “un guardia” amenazó al traductor de un periodista con darle una paliza si no dejaba de hacer preguntas a la familia. Se comenta que no era una persona de Foxconn, si no de la policía y que todo fue poco después o en el funeral. Otra gran pregunta que me hago y os hago es ¿esta historia tendría la misma relevancia si fuese un prototipo de otra empresa? Yo creo que no y esto eso es muy triste. Vía: Sillicon Alley Insider, Wired | Foto (CC) Bert van Dijk ...