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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Exploitation, Suffering and Other Human Costs Are Built Into Some Products

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2011-02/16/content_21930485.htm
Horrific & abusive working conditions should not be accepted, anywhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/foxconn-said-to-use-forced-student-labor-to-make-iphones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0, 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/10/as_millions_buy_iphone_5_chinese,
http://technology.inquirer.net/18300/strike-at-china-apple-manufacturer-rights-group

http://www.change.org/petitions/dear-apple-no-factory-workers-should-die-making-our-ipads?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign

From The Jungle (1906) to The Digital Jungle of abusive manufacturing.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57516096-37/no-more-islave-an-activist-fights-for-iphone-workers

http://readthinkwriteteach.com/2012/06/08/brazil-workers-exploited-as-modern-day-amazon-slaves,
http://www.ibtimes.com/why-us-minimum-wage-less-half-what-australia-pays-their-workers-722579
JF at 6:13 AM
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