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Audit Finds That Foxconn Workers Are Laboring Under Crappy Conditions
While it turned out that monologuist Mike Daisey made up a bunch of stuff about working conditions at Foxconn, that doesn't mean that things there are all sunshine and roses. A recent labor audit found the giant Chinese manufacturer has working conditions that need a whole heck of a lot of improvement. More »

Apple CEO Tim Cook Takes A Tour Of Foxconn During Trip To China
In his first visit to China as head honcho of the company, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook made time to take a tour of one of the company's key suppliers, Foxconn. The plant has been in the news again recently after This American Life retracted Mike Daisey's story about visiting it for not being so factual. More »

Man Behind Juked-Up Apple/Foxconn Story Says He Lied To "Make People Care"
As we reported on Friday, This American Life had to issue a retraction on a radio segment about workers at a Foxconn factory where Apple products are made because Mike Daisey, the man whose story is the thrust of the piece, fabricated a number of the details. And while Daisey has admitted he made things up, he says he did it all with good intentions. More »

More Than 250,000 People Petition Apple For Better Conditions At iPhone Factory
Foxconn is the world's largest electronics manufacturing company, assembling devices for just about every major company, from Apple to Microsoft to Sony to Nintendo. It has come under fire in recent years, following reports of poor working conditions and employee suicides. Concerned that their favorite products might be being produced in such an unfriendly environment, more than 250,000 Apple users have signed two petitions asking that company to improve conditions at Foxconn. More »

Report: Hundreds Of Xbox Makers At Foxconn Plant Threatened Suicide
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has factories just about everywhere in the world, and they make stuff for just about every gadget company that you can think of. This makes any news coming out of the company, from 2010's suicide cluster to last year's explosion, fascinating to us. But it's hard to look at your Xbox quite the same way after learning that hundreds of Foxconn workers reportedly took to the roof and threatened suicide over severance payments. More »

When A Mac Cultist Traveled To The Apple Factory
You may have idly wondered where it is that your favorite gadgets come from...for a few seconds, and then gone right back to your game of Fruit Ninja. But writer and performer Mike Daisey took that curiosity to a whole other level. He traveled to the "special economic zone" of Shenzhen, China, to see where it is that all of our crap comes from. UPDATE, 3/16/12: This American Life has issued a retraction of this story after reporters tracked down Daisey's interpreter and learned that much of the material presented in the show was made up. More »

Three Workers Die In Explosion At Foxconn Factory
Three workers have died in an explosion at a plant run by Foxconn Technology Group in Hongfujin, China. Fifteen other workers were injured at the plant, said to be a manufacturing base for Apple's iPad. More »

Pix Of Where The Chinese iPhone Worker-Drones Sleep
Gizmodo's Joel Johnson got to peek inside the Foxconn factory in China where your iPhone and other fancy gadgets get made. Some 200,000 workers work inside, and also live in on-site dorms. Perhaps the most gripping images, however, are of what's on the outside. Every building is draped in protective nets to prevent workers from suiciding off the roofs. More »

Another Foxconn Employee Dies Mysteriously, Chinese Government Censors Suicide News
Another presumably young, healthy employee at Foxconn's factory in Shenzen, China has died under mysterious circumstances. The reason for the 28-year-old engineer's death still isn't clear—but he did die at home shortly after working 34 hours straight at the factory. More »

Suicides At Foxconn Prompt Cartoons, Raises, No-Suicide Pledge
Is Foxconn, the huge electronics company that manufactures for global brands such as HP, Dell, and Apple (yes, they make the iPad and iPhone) a towering fortress of secrecy where employees cower in fear, ten people to a dorm room, or a normal manufacturing outfit that has had a weird cluster of employee suicides recently? More »

Foxconn Workers In Mexico Revolt, Set Factory On Fire
Gizmodo reports, based on a story in the subscription-only El Norte, that workers in a Foxconn factory in Juarez, Mexico became enraged and set the building on fire. Supervisors had misled the workers into working unpaid overtime. A delightful follow-up to the Reuters report about a Foxconn security guard threatening a foreign reporter. [Gizmodo] (Thanks, GitEmSteveDave!)

Your iPhone Comes From A Towering Fortress Of Secrecy And Paranoia
You know that your iPhone was made in China, but do you really know where it came from? Reuters recently looked inside the mainland China factories of Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn—manufacturer of many of Apple's best-known devices, including the iPhone. Or just parts of them, since Apple is known for having different parts of a device made in by different companies entirely in order to protect proprietary information. More »

Foxconn Nukes iPod City Journalists From Orbit

—>Foxconn was ill-pleased with the allegations of two Chinese journalists that they had set-up massive iPod sweatshops in Rural Red Country. How ill-pleased are they? As they previously warned, they are suing these guys into oblivion.  More »

iPod Factory Admits Breaking Chinese Labor Laws

—>As you can easily imagine, breaking labor laws in China is a bit hard to do as an employer. However, Foxconn managed to do just that by forcing the workers in the Apple iPod factories to work up to 80 extra hours per month. Under local law, laborers can only be forced to work 36 extra hours.   More »

Foxconn Denies iPod Sweatshop Details

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