Shenzhen

How Nightline Blew the iSweatShop Story

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Foxconn, Apple, Nightline, Jobs, Greg Autry, Hon Hai, Shenzhen, China, Peter Navarro, Ipad, Apple China Factory, Business News
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry

You cannot really talk about why Apple products are produced in Shenzhen without dealing with the most important source of China's competitive edge: It's unfair trade practices.

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Apple's China Comes Home to Haunt Us

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Robert Scheer, Shenzhen, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Capitalism, Government, Iphone, Politics, History, Labor, Apple, Steve Jobs, Environment, Foxconn, Mao, Richard Nixon, Unions, China, Business News
Robert Scheer

If the habits required of Apple's workforce in China are to be emulated, the U.S. military, or perhaps our outsized prison system, should become the essential schooling system for American workers to better compete with the properly disciplined assemblers of iPhones in China.

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Apple Announces Investigation Of Foxconn Factories

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Shenzhen, Apple, Apple Shenzhen, Fair Labor Association, Foxconn, Chengdu, Apple Foxconn, Tim Cook, Technology News

Apple on Monday said that it has asked the Fair Labor Association to conduct "special voluntary audits" of several of its assembly suppliers' faciliti...

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You've Never Seen Silhouettes Like These Before!

Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Photography, Tokyo, Optical Illusion, Shenzhen, Video, Illusion, Jasper James, Illusion Art, Contemporary Art, Asia, Shanghai, Cityscapes, Arts News

In 2008, people living in urban areas outweighed the amount of people living in rural areas for the first time in history. This monumental shift towar...

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First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple

David Finkle | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Spaulding Gray, Steve Jobs, Foxconn, Jean-Michele Gregory, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Apple, Shenzhen, The New York Times Op-Ed, Jean Shepherd, The Public Theater, Mike Daisey, China, Arts News
David Finkle

During the nearly two-hour intermissionless talk, technology-worshiping Daisey does acknowledge that Jobs was "the only hero I ever had." But that was prior to a trip he made not that long ago to Shenzhen, China and the Foxconn manufacturing plant.

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Observations of Old and New China

Frits van Paasschen | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Shenzhen, Hong Kong, China, Starwood Hotels, Beijing, Zhongshan, Business News
Frits van Paasschen

As I walked the bustling, gritty streets of Zhongshan, it's a great example of how development is spreading out. Outside you see street vendors around the corner from luxury stores, and dilapidated structures next door to high-end apartments.

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Peter S. Goodman

Supreme Court's Walmart Ruling Undermines Labor Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Walmart, Shenzhen, Labor, Income Inequality, Antonin Scalia, Detroit, Mexico, Gated Communities, Wal-Mart, Working Class, China Price, Business News

The appalling Walmart decision handed down by the Court this week will serve as a brilliant symbol of how the United States has essentially become a giant gated community enjoyed by the powerful, with most of the citizenry living outside and struggling to nourish themselves.

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Your iPod Is Polluting China and L.A. -- and Wyoming Might Be Next

Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn, Powder River Basin, Ipod, Apple, Wyoming, Greenhouse Gas, Shenzhen, Co2, Peabody Energy, Guangzhou, China, Los Angeles, Coal, Green News
Daniel K. Gardner

Next time you buy an iPod, don't forget to add the CO2 cost of moving coal from Powder River Basin, Wyo., to Guangzhou, China.

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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...

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Shenzhen Urban Farm: 'Landgrab City' Planted In Heart Of Downtown

Inhabitat | Bridgette Meinhold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shenzhen, Shenzhen China, Food, Shenzhen Urban Farm, Shenzhen Landgrab City, Green News

An urban farm was recently planted right in the heart of downtown Shenzhen, China as part of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism/Architectur...

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