New photos and video footage reaffirm harsh conditions at Foxconn

By on Dec 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Business December 23, 2010

French Journalist Jordan Pouille recently visited the Foxconn campus in Shenzhen and returned home with a series of photos and video that highlight the conditions and morale at the notorious plant. Foxconn, which manufactures gadgets for a variety of major electronics companies including Apple, HP, Nokia, Sony and Palm, has been scrutinized over the past year following a string of worker suicides and allegations of exploitative and abusive practices among management. Pouille details the scene at the Foxconn factory, and speaks to workers who describe the conditions as being similar to a labor camp.

At the production line, none of them could speak or even look at each other while trying to achieve the christmas production targets. They had to leave their mobile at the entry. However, their managers tried not to insult them, after all the bad publicity they got last spring when the 13 Foxconn suicides hit the headlines. A big improvement has been made after 30 glorious years of economic reforms: more workers are now allowed to sit down (depending on the good will of their managers) while working.

Hit the break for a video and visit the read link for a first-hand account of the conditions at Foxconn.

[Via Business Insider]

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  • Tryingtothinkoutsidethebox

    lets just say….

    that everybody did boycott these products manufactured by these companies…..

    and lets just say that this boycott was so effective it put these companies out of business…..

    then what?

    what is in store for all of these people that work for these companies

  • George W.

    every fuckin company exploits people in poor countries. some people live in a fuckin dream world. sittin on your toilet chattin, facetiming your asshole, while other people dont even get to drink your asswater. lol that was kinda cynic. its just reality. its always gonna be.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t look so bad. The jazzersize class looked cool. The safety grill in front of the windows is a nice touch. Falling out of a window can be deadly.
    Funny how being unemployed for a while can change your perspective a little.

  • brd

    Tragic. And americans cry when they dont get health benefits or an extra $1 per hour wage. We are such winers!

  • JJC

    We need a more socialist government so we can live like that.

    • Anonymous

      Or another Bush W. It’s a surprise the US is still solvent after 8 years of Republican rule.

  • Anonymous

    they look happy to me.they’re singing and dancing .they even get their hands on all the new gadgets before we do.those lucky bastards.

  • http://twitter.com/alexrodriguez Alex Rodriguez

    I wish folks would focus on this much more and “encourage” Apple to return some of its manufacturing to the US.

  • Douglas Moran

    Which part was harsh again? If this were shot in America…perhaps, but this is China where this is status quo, not harsh.

  • Kcromer

    If this video is breaking news – why is it ‘private’?

  • Tournoir

    13 suicides at one company is too many.  How can anyone even attempt to justify or rationalize that?  Have we all gone mad?  Do we lack the integrity and common human decency that determines social justice?  My god…

  • Tournoir

    I grow weary of the lack of conscience that people in this country have…we are detached, disengaged, and fat from all of the “stuff” we “need”.  It is wrong, wrong, wrong.  People, everywhere, do not need to be treated as product.  We are all people; not a sofa, not a camera, not a computer, not a thing.  We live, we breathe, we exist.  That alone gives living beings the right to common human decency.  I wish I could figure out how not to buy any of their stuff…….

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