With the development of technology, more and more people can afford to buy an I-phone without spend too much salary. However, most people don’t know how much salary the manufacturing workers get each month in order to meet the high demand of I-phone.
In the article “the Man who makes your iPhone”, it makes me feel Foxconn uses slave labor to build iPhones, and they even admit they use child labor. As a report from CBC News pointed on Jan 29th 2011, each iPhone is made by young children’s hand and Apple only give them minimum slave wages. Even though an audit team uncovered several rules at the Longhua plant violate Apple’s code of conduct, Steve Jobs wasn’t mad at Terry Gou because without Terry, Steve wouldn’t be able to reach his goal. When working conditions at Foxconn became unbearable, workers started committing suicide by jumping to their death. The company responded by installing nets to catch people. Suicide problem solved. Yet the consumer relations problem was far from solved, and workplace conditions hadn’t changed overnight.
Ironically, the same people who criticize Apple, use Apple products and, ultimately, admit that Apple is possibly the only company doing anything about the problem. Most of my co-workers in my company own at least one Apple products. During a lunch break the other day, after I told them the article I read about how Foxconn treat their employees, they made a lot of criticize and commons, however, they admitted that they still own and use Apple products. One of them stated, “If I stop using Apple product, I’ll never find another I-phone that made the same way”.
Under pressure from Apple and other major brands, Foxconn has pledged to improve working conditions in China, and the company has hired psychiatrists to counsel workers. The company has also begun a huge program to invest in robots and to move some of its production to the