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China may be far away but Foxconn is on our doorstep | openDemocracy

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Drawing on support from permissive governments, multinational manufacturer Foxconn has set up shop in Central Europe. Yet the transitory nature of the many migrant workers employed in these factories will have serious consequences for the future of labour in Europe.

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The Foxconn factory in Pardubice, Czech Republic. Wikimedia Commons/Nadkachna. Some rights reserved.The Foxconn factory in Pardubice, Czech Republic. Wikimedia Commons/Nadkachna. Some rights reserved.

The best dormitory in town bears the evocative name of Hotel Harmony and houses several hundred migrant workers recruited almost exclusively by Xawax, one of the country’s 1,300 or so recruitment agencies. The Express People agency, on the other hand, puts its workers up in a third-rate bed and breakfast, the Veselka, a stone’s throw from the railway station.

#sweatshop #foxconn #europe_est #tchéquie

Apple’s Chinese factories to be audited after violation of working conditions | Technology | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/24/apple-factories-china-independent-audit

The man’s hand is twisted into a claw, crushed, he says by a metal press at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, where Apple’s luxury electronics are assembled. He is looking at an iPad – he has never seen one switched on. His mangled hand strokes the screen, bringing it to life.

Back at the factory, where the buildings are swathed in nets after 12 workers committed suicides in a single year, a young girl emerges from the gates. Her job is to clean the iPhone screens before they are packaged. She says she is 13.

These are a few of the many shattering images in performer Mike Daisey’s account of his 2010 visit to China. After hearing about the Foxconn suicides, he determined to meet members of Apple’s largest subcontracted workforce.

What he discovered ultimately led to the firm’s announcement this month that it would throw open its factories to independent auditing by the Fair Labor Association (FLA). A non-profit group founded in 1999 after sweatshop scandals, it already audits Nike, Adidas and H&M. Apple is its first tech industry member.

Apple’s Chinese factories to be audited after violation of working conditions | Technology | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/24/apple-factories-china-independent-audit

Local HR practice blamed, but suicides, long working hours and disciplinary wage deductions give cause for concern

The man’s hand is twisted into a claw, crushed, he says by a metal press at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, where Apple’s luxury electronics are assembled. He is looking at an iPad – he has never seen one switched on. His mangled hand strokes the screen, bringing it to life.

Back at the factory, where the buildings are swathed in nets after 12 workers committed suicides in a single year, a young girl emerges from the gates. Her job is to clean the iPhone screens before they are packaged. She says she is 13.

#travail #travail_des_enfants #Chine

’Mass suicide’ protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory - Telegraph
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Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, threatened to commit suicide by leaping from their factory roof in protest at their working conditions.

The workers were eventually coaxed down after two days on top of their three-floor plant in Wuhan by Foxconn managers and local Chinese Communist party officials.

Foxconn, which manufactures gadgets for the likes of Apple, Sony, Nintendo and HP, among many others, has had a grim history of suicides at its factories. A suicide cluster in 2010 saw 18 workers throw themselves from the tops of the company’s buildings, with 14 deaths.