Apple’s model labour practices
Stories are doing the rounds about a “spate of suicides” at Foxconn, a factory that supplies Apple and various other technology vendors. Most of them editorialise about the terrible labour practices going on at the Chinese company. The reality is that Foxconn workers are much happier than the rest of us. Here’s my ITWeb column on the subject, in which I challenge Reuters and the Associated Press to do the arithmetic.
