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GRAPHIC: What's Made Using Child Or Slave Labor?

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slave Labor, India, Video, US Department of Labor, Apple, Child Labor, Brazil, Microsoft, Foxconn, National Post, Forced Labor, China, Business News

It's hard to believe, but true: Still today, many everyday products from around the globe are the result of child and slave labor, according to a 2011...

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Apple To Help Improve Factories In China

Reuters | John Ruwitch | Posted 05.10.2012

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By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving ...

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Apple's Inspirational Note For New Hires

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 05.08.2012

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The Apple inspirational note left on the desk of Instagram user "M" and discovered by New York Times columnist Nick Bilton, sums what it means to be a...

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Apple's Goliath Effect

Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Foxconn, Steve Jobs, New York Times, Apple Computer, Amazon, Ipad, Apple Earnings, Apple Stock, Media News

For two financial quarters in a row, the New York Times has expertly timed slingshots at Apple that have had a material effect on its stock. But that's what happens when you're Goliath. They say the third time's a charm.

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High Flying Apple Hits Turbulence In Brazil, Foxconn's Gou Calls Workers 'Animals'

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Foxconn, Terry Gou, China, Human Capital, Brazil, Corporate Social Responsibility, Foxconn Brazil, Brazil Foxconn, Foxconn Workers, World News

Foxconn seeking low wage targets of opportunity actually disrupts Brazil's quest to create high value jobs that promote income distribution and build a stronger, more inclusive society.

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Foxconn Workers Protest, Threaten To Jump Off Roof

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2012

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TAIPEI, April 27 (Reuters) - Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a buil...

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Apple's Two Faces: Power Gaps Between Brazil and China Foxconn Workers

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Labor, Human Rights, Economic Policy Institute, Economy, Foxconn, Technology, Apple Factories, Apple Foxconn, World News

Apple presides over a global technology empire, but the economic landscapes it shapes around the world are strangely uneven. As long as corporations can freely cross national boundaries, workers' rights should be just as global.

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The System Isn't Broken; It Was Built This Way

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Foxconn, Humanity, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Capitalism, China Economy, China, The Venus Project, Work Conditions, Environmental Regulation, Environmentalism, Financial Regulation, Business News

Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road? Communist China, ironically.

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Defending Mr. Daisey, Part 2: Big Fact, Little Fact

Scott Walters | Posted 04.17.2012

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Did Marketplace's Rob Schmitz really think that, on a tour of the facility arranged by Apple and Foxxconn that he would meet underaged workers, people poisoned on the job, or people who had been hurt in a explosion?

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WATCH: iPad Assembled At Foxconn Factory

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.12.2012

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

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Is The Era Of Cheap Chinese Labor Coming To An End?

Reuters | Posted 04.04.2012

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* Apple, Foxconn deal adds to view low cost era is over * Deal coincides with rising wages, tighter labour force * Worke...

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Defending Mr. Daisey

Scott Walters | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Mike Daisey This American Life, Ira Glass, Mike Daisey, This American Life, Foxxconn-Apple, Mike Daisey Steve Jobs, Apple Products, Apple, Foxconn, Culture News

It makes sense to expect that the most important aspects of Mike Daisey's monologue be able to stand up to scrutiny, but to excerpt a theatre piece, a work of testimonia, a memoir and suddenly expect it to stand up to journalistic standards is naïve at best and dishonest at worst.

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Foxconn Chairman Makes Big Promise

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012

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(Adds quotes, details) By Lee Chyen Yee and Jeanny Kao BOAO, China April 1 (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group will ke...

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Apple/Foxconn Promises -- We'll See

Dave Johnson | Posted 03.30.2012

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Apple's suppliers promise to improve conditions, make workplaces safer, stop forcing such long hours and lift wages. Foxconn even says they'll start obeying Chinese law -- but not until next year!

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Foxconn and the Curious Silence of Social Media

Adam Hanft | Posted 03.30.2012

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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.

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The iPhone and Consumer Guilt

Annie Leonard | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Consumerism, Apple, The Story of Stuff, Foxconn, Annie Leonard, Iphone, China, Fair Trade, Electronics, Green News

Next time someone says they feel guilty for owning an iPhone, ask if they were the one who decided to maintain a 73% profit margin while underpaying workers on 18-hour-shifts. To roll out new models at breakneck speed? To use conflict minerals and toxic chemicals?

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Why Chinese Workers May Be Getting Paid More

AP | JOE McDONALD and MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.30.2012

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BEIJING — Consumers probably won't have to pay more for iPads, iPhones and other popular consumer electronics despite a Chinese company's pledge...

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Apple Products: Now With 10 Percent Less Guilt

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.30.2012

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The odds of you winning tonight's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot are 175 million to one, but there are only seven and a half things you need to kn...

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Foxconn Cuts Working Hours, Employees Ask Why

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2012

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LONGHUA, China, March 30 (Reuters) - When Chinese worker Wu Jun heard that her employer, the giant electronics assembly company Foxconn, had given e...

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

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.30.2012

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

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Controversial Apple Factories Reportedly Violated Labor Laws

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.29.2012

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NEW YORK -- The Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads will have their overtime curbed and their hou...

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Apple, Foxconn Vow Wide Revamp Of Factories

Reuters | Poornima Gupta and Edwin Chan | Posted 03.30.2012

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* Violations discovered that Apple and Foxconn addressing * To reduce work hours but keep pay steady * I...

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Apple CEO Makes Historic Visit

Reuters | Posted 03.29.2012

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc's Tim Cook, on his first trip to China as the chief executive officer, has visited an iPhone production plant run by th...

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Even With Daisey's Lies Peeled Away, Apple's Rotten Core Exposed

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Fair Trade, Computers, Manufacturing, Mike Daisey, Npr, Labor, Apple, Apple Ipad, Labor Rights, Foxconn, Consumers, Technology, This American Life, Electronics, Sweatshops, China, Apple Products, Technology News

If one fundamental truth has emerged from the scandal surrounding Daisey's dramatic fudging, it's that the lived reality of many Chinese workers is undoubtedly bleak -- no embellishment needed.

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Apple Reveals New Data On Foxconn Working Conditions

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.22.2012

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Apple has published new information about working conditions in Chinese supplier factories where many iPhone, iPad and MacBook devices are assembled. ...

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