April 12th, 2012
Inside Foxconn
Last week Marketplace's Rob Schmitz interviewed workers inside one of Foxconn's Shenzhen factories. Source: Rob Schmitz/marketplace.org
By Rob Schmitz / Marketplace
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Meet the workers behind the iPad and other mass market consumer electronics. Marketplace‘s Rob Schmitz continues the work that uncovered Mike Daisy’s subterfuge on This American Life. Schmitz doesn’t report meetings with 13-year-old workers or people who’ve been injured in explosions. They’re complaints are about privileges afforded their supervisors but not to them. They came to Shenzhen for higher wages and got them, but those higher wages don’t go as far in Shenzhen as they might have in their rural homes.
