Apple As UnEthical .Foxxcon China!
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Foxconn is Apple's largest manufacturing partner. It operates 13 factories in China employing over 200,000 workers who often work 60 hours per week for $100 per month and live in company dorms. Foxconn and Apple have faced criticism for labor abuses like child labor, poor working conditions leading to employee suicides, and lack of safety precautions when using toxic chemicals. While these practices may be common in China, companies need to ensure their suppliers meet basic ethical standards to avoid negative publicity from competitors and activists exposing such unsavory practices.
Apple As UnEthical .Foxxcon China!
- 3. Introduction • Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers. • Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 . • Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia.
- 4. Foxconn • Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, It is the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, and the fourth- largest information technology company by revenue. • Foxconn has 13 factories in nine Chinese cities. • Notable products that the company manufactures include the BlackBerry,iPad , iPhone, iPod, Kindle, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
- 5. Un Ethical practices • over 200,000workers that lived and worked in the factory, 60 hours of labor per week they made around $100 per month and were required to live on the premises and pay for rent and food from the company. • Foxconn & Apple's child labor abuses. • Suicides of employees and labour. • Suicide proof building ,preventing nets. • Usage of poison and toxic chemical without any safety precautions.
- 7. Conclusion • Too often companies take a blind eye to their suppliers and act like practices that are common in a region don't apply to them or these favored suppliers, even though they may know this isn't true. In an Internet age, I think that is increasingly problematic. Even if governments don't take action, competitors and activist groups are more than capable of making these unsavory practices visible.
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