Apple factory workers make less than $300 a month and get treated like slaves.
As recently as 2004 Apple had manufacturing in Sacramento CA.
All I can say is if the workers in China can't afford to buy corporate products, and the people in the consumer countries have fewer manufacturing jobs than before, who the fuck is gonna buy this stuff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ted-inhumanely
■ Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month.
■ Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13.
■ In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues.
■ Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again."
As recently as 2004 Apple had manufacturing in Sacramento CA.
All I can say is if the workers in China can't afford to buy corporate products, and the people in the consumer countries have fewer manufacturing jobs than before, who the fuck is gonna buy this stuff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ted-inhumanely
■ Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month.
■ Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13.
■ In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues.
■ Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again."
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