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Pages: 1 Paul Dallas member Reged: 12/14/05 Posts: 1189 Loc: the corner of Bedlam & Squalor Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory       #225795 - 01/18/12 01:30 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory Someone sent this to me and it obviously has more than a little bit of a liberal slant -- but if you can stomach your way past that, its kinda interesting. Foxconn Corp has a walled, heavily guarded factory campus in Szhenzen, China that employs over 400,000 people, thats right, 400,000 most of them a couple steps just above slave labor, HAND-assembling that vast majority of all our beloved techno-gadgets (not just Apple ipads and iphones, but just about anything electronic thats made by Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, and many other major companies who outsource this assembly work direct to Foxconn). Workers live in dormitories on campus, work 16 hrs/day, and netting is installed around many of the buildings to catch many of the jumpers. I'm sure that many of the workers are happy to have the jobs for scant pay, but this is more than a labor movement story -- it is interesting to see China's industrial revolution . . . the jobs that once upon a time were here, the technology transfer, the implications it could have down the road, and about a dozen other things. Post Extras:       griffin administrator Reged: 12/13/05 Posts: 9625 Loc: the most dangerous city in Ame... Re: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory [Re: Paul Dallas]       #226004 - 01/23/12 11:32 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Dude.....seriously....nobody can listen to that without smoking a bunch of weed first. griffin -------------------- "The Irish are one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." - Sigmund Freud Post Extras:       fastman member Reged: 01/01/06 Posts: 1921 Loc: missouri Re: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory [Re: griffin]       #226400 - 02/08/12 09:50 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Count me in then!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------------- "A man will heedlessly charge a cannon, but puke at the sight of 6 inches of steel." Jim Bowie Post Extras:       daffy member Reged: 12/15/05 Posts: 467 Loc: Jeff County, MO Re: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory [Re: fastman]       #227137 - 03/06/12 04:49 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Go Eddie go! -------------------- Our next presenter is the first woman to ever breast-feed an Apple - Gwyneth Paltrow. -- Chris Rock Post Extras:       fastman member Reged: 01/01/06 Posts: 1921 Loc: missouri Re: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory [Re: daffy]       #227141 - 03/06/12 08:01 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   took ya long enough daffy (damn near a month) I'll go as long as I can -------------------- "A man will heedlessly charge a cannon, but puke at the sight of 6 inches of steel." Jim Bowie Post Extras:       daffy member Reged: 12/15/05 Posts: 467 Loc: Jeff County, MO Re: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory [Re: fastman]       #227196 - 03/08/12 04:21 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Sorry Eddie. I don't party like I used too and all. Thats all I'm going to say about that. -------------------- Our next presenter is the first woman to ever breast-feed an Apple - Gwyneth Paltrow. -- Chris Rock Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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