Thanks. From what I am

EmmaZahn — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:59:41 +0000

Thanks. From what I am reading, Foxconn sounds like hell.

BTW, that quote is actually from New Wave of Deft Robots Is Changing Global Industry - NYTimes.com, August 18, 2012 but I linked to where I discovered it because the link there leads through to other stories as well.

Just in case you didn't

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:43:02 +0000

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Just in case you didn't seethe news about the riot at a Foxconn plant, it really puts that quote you highlighted in a strange context. I've seen more development on the story since, but this is the New York Times from yesterday:

Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says
By DAVID BARBOZA and KEITH BRADSHER, September 24/25, 2012

SHANGHAI —[....]

One Foxconn employee reached by telephone Monday afternoon, however, said the disturbance had begun when workers started brawling with security guards, and it eventually had led to a huge riot involving more than 1,000 workers. Foxconn said no property had been destroyed or damaged.

Unconfirmed photographs and video circulated on social networking sites, purporting to be from the factory, showed smashed windows, riot police officers and large groups of workers milling around. The Foxconn plant, in the central Chinese city of Taiyuan, employs about 79,000 workers.

The Chinese state-run news media said 5,000 police officers had been called in to quell the riot.

A Foxconn spokesman declined to specify whether the Taiyuan plant made products for the Apple iPhone 5, which went on sale last week, but he said it supplied goods to many consumer electronics brands.

An employee at the Taiyuan plant, however, said iPhone components were made there. Most Apple-related production, though, takes place in other parts of China, particularly in the provinces of Sichuan and Henan. Apple could not be reached for comment.

Foxconn said it employs about 1.1 million workers in China.

The disturbance is the latest problem to hit Foxconn, a key supplier of products to Apple and other global electronics companies, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft [....]

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