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Foxconn Longhua (Shenzhen)

China / Guangdong / Shenzhen
 electronic components, production
EMS Company, aka . Manufactures things like iPhones, iPods, the PlayStation 3, Kindle, and more, though not necessarily at this plant.

This complex is actually more than a factory, it's a whole "town" complete with stores, restaurants, banks, and dormitories.

The company has had to install safety nets around most of the buildings because of the increasing number of worker suicides.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
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Coordinates:   22°39'30"N   114°2'35"E

Comments

  • Gabe (guest)
    Terrible, documented working conditions at this factory site.
  • TLU2008
    Most of which were exaggerated.
  • Gabe (guest)
    Hardly exaggerated. Why else would people be committing suicide so often there?
  • Tony (guest)
    Funny, this is fake news from long ago. Actually, the place has 13 suicides per 1,000,000 workers. The U.S average is 14 suicides per 100,000. Farmers saw assembly line work as 'work from heaven' in the last generation. It's the millennial generation who don't understand hard work and good work. Worh ethics have changed and assembly work not suited for this generation. It's ok. Robots will take their jobs and they will be useless whiny people complaining about everything.
  • Gabe1972
    The suicides were due to the terrible working conditions. This is well documented. No amount of whitewashing will change that fact.
  • scooby doo (guest)
    Because they are young and get themselves entangled in romances which go wrong
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