Foxconn/Hon Hai, a Taiwanese manufacturer, owns a plant in Shenzhen (southern Communist China), which makes iPods, iPhones, & iPads for Apple, computers for HP, & phones for Nokia. Fourteen suicides and 2 attempts have occurred there. Apple, HP, & Nokia say they're investigating the matter, but why can't they just switch to another manufacturer? Is our need for cheap electronics really worth the lives of Chinese workers?Wikipedia's blurb on Foxconn suicides
Wall Street Journal article on the suicides:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575267603576594936.html
The Economist reveals that the company also prevented 20 suicide attempts at this plant:
http://www.economist.com/node/16231588?story_id=16231588
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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