Cafeoutdoors.com: Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory

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.

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