manufacturing
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Apple Asks Fair Labor Association To Check Out Chinese Suppliers
After enduring weeks of criticism over the working conditions at the Chinese assembly plants, Apple will submit to special audits conducted by the Fair Labor Association. The audit will include the embattled Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu.
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Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown iPad For First Time In Her Life
“Ms Chen”, as CNN calls her, works in a Foxconn plant installing iPad screens for virtually every waking hour of her life. Despite this, she never actually saw an iPad until CNN whisked her away. Her reaction will surprise you.
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Thousands Queue For Foxconn Jobs Ahead Of Possible iPhone 5 Production
Despite the explosions, suicides, reported abuse and poisonous gas, Foxconn is apparently a very popular place to work.
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How iPad Demand Led To Last Year’s Deadly Foxconn Explosion
You probably remember the Foxconn explosion from last May that killed four people and left 18 others seriously injured. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza of the New York Times have a massive profile on the human side of a totally avoidable dust explosion in a plant frantically rushing to keep up with demand for iPads,…