Thursday, October 14, 2010

Foxconn’s Global Empire Reflects a New Breed of Sweatshop

by Michelle Chen from In These Times

The abuses at Foxconn in Southern China made it briefly into some mainstream media, but other reports are surfacing to suggest that their model of worker management is widespread in the electronics industry. Capitalists' never ending search for greater profits creates such gross examples of wage slavery.
With hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide, Foxconn's militaristic model is perfectly suited to the evolving workplace culture of the global economy—homogenized, disciplined, robotically efficient.