Foxconn Factory

WATCH: iPad Assembled At Foxconn Factory

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Foxconn Ipad, Video, Apple, Ipad Foxconn, Foxconn, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Apple, Slidepollajax, Apple Foxconn, Ipad, Topicfoxconn, Marketplace Ipad, Ipad Factory, Foxconn Factory Video, Technology News

Rumors, reports and downright lies have been swirling around the conditions of Foxconn factories in China that assemble products like Apple's new iPad...

Read Whole Story

Foxconn and the Curious Silence of Social Media

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Foxconn Factory, Foxconn, Apple Products, Social Media, Apple, China Foxconn, China, Apple Foxconn, China Manufacturing, Business News
Adam Hanft

Seduction wins over obligation. Based on the minimal level of visible, practical outrage -- boycotts, petitions, any social storm at all -- it's clear that the manifold pleasures we derive from Apple's products are blinding us.

Read Post

Foxconn Factory's Violations: iPad Factory Workers' Grievances Detailed In Report

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Foxconn Violations, Apple Factory, Foxconn, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Apple, Apple Foxconn, Foxconn Report, Technology News

The results of an audit of three Foxconn factories that manufacture Apple products has turned up "serious and pressing" violations of Chinese labor la...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: Report Shows Foxconn Hid Teen Workers Before Inspection

The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Foxconn Factory, Foxconn, Foxconn Hid Teen Workers, Video, Apple Hid Teen Workers, Apple Factory, Foxconn Teen Workers, Slidepollajax, Apple Foxconn, Technology News

Reports are swirling that Apple supplier Foxconn hid teenage employees before inspections by the Fair Labor Association. Workers age 16-18 were ban...

Read Whole Story

High Tech, Low Pay: Let the Workers Behind Our Electronics Be Heard

Smita Narula | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Foxconn, Iphone, Technology News, Foxconn Robots, China, Ipad, World News, Sony, Foxconn Workers, Apple, Dell, Apple News, Foxconn Suicides, Business News, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Robot Workers, Technology News
Smita Narula

Apple may be reporting record company sales in 2011, but one thing the company is not making noise about are the details surrounding a string of recent tragedies at the Chinese factory where so much of Apple's current success story is based.

Read Post

Foxconn To Overhaul Human Workforce With Robot Replacements

Xinhua News Agency | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Foxconn, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Robot Workers, Apple News, Foxconn Robots, Foxconn Workers, Technology News

Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve effi...

Read Whole Story

Foxconn Shuts Plant After Workers Hospitalized With Symptoms Of 'Giddiness,' 'Nausea'

Yahoo! News | Tue Jul 27, 7:45 Am ET | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn Factory, Foxconn, Foxconn India, Foxconn News, Foxconn India Factory, Foxconn India Plant, Technology News

Taiwan's troubled IT giant Foxconn has suspended operations at a factory in India after 250 workers were hospitalised in an incident thought to be lin...

Read Whole Story

Foxconn Workers Get 30% Raise Following Spate Of Suicides

AP | By ANNIE HUANG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn Factory, Foxconn, Iphone Factory, Foxconn Workers Raise, Foxconn Suicides, Foxconn Workers, Foxconn Raise, Technology News

...

Read Whole Story

Foxconn Suffers Ninth Suicide THIS YEAR

AP | By WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Technology Group, Suicide Foxconn, Foxconn Suicide, Technology News

...

Read Whole Story

Workers in Southern China's iPhone and iPad Factory Explain Reasons for Sudden Rise in Factory's Suicides

Bloomberg | Bloomberg News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Shenzhen, Southern China, Foxconn, Foxconn Factory, Foxconn Factory Shenzhen, Chinese Factory Suicide, Foxconn Suicide, Ipad, Business News

"Life is meaningless," said Ah Wei, his fingernails stained black with the dust from the hundreds of mobile phones he has burnished over the course of...

Read Whole Story