Foxconn suicides - Wikipedia
The Foxconn suicides were a spate of suicides linked to low pay and brutal working conditions at the Foxconn City industrial park in Shenzhen, China, that occurred alongside several additional suicides at various other Foxconn-owned locations and facilities in mainland China. [1]
Rash of Suicides in China where Apple Products are Produced
May 31, 2010 · It has even started putting up nets around buildings, designed to catch workers who decide to jump. Workers were also installing wire barriers across open balconies on high floors at Foxconn dormitories.
Foxconn hit by 10th jumping death; nets installed | Reuters
May 27, 2010 · An employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn <2038.HK> jumped to his death late on Wednesday, state media reported, the tenth suspected suicide this year at the high-tech firm's huge production base in...
Apple has a huge problem with an iPhone factory in China
Nov 25, 2022 · Analysts said the woes facing Taiwan contract manufacturing firm Foxconn, a top Apple supplier which owns the facility, will also speed up the pace of diversification away from China to...
1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who's to Blame?
Feb 28, 2011 · Foxconn, the single largest private employer in mainland China, manufactures many of the products—motherboards, camera components, MP3 players—that make up the world's $150 billion...
Foxconn buildings covered in suicide nets, though most workers ... - iMore
Mar 10, 2018 · Although Nightline reports that there are nets just about everywhere at Foxconn to catch anyone trying to commit suicide, depression is apparently not that common. The counseling center is sparsely us.
What happened after the Foxconn suicides - CBS News
Aug 7, 2013 · The Foxconn communications director Liu Kun, argued that with more than a million employees in China alone, the rate of "self-killing" wasn't far from China's relatively high average.
By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn — ProPublica
Jan 27, 2012 · 1.2 million: number of workers employed by Foxconn in China, according to the New York Times. 40: Estimated percent of the world's consumer electronics manufactured by Foxconn. 7: seconds it...
Chinese workers threaten suicide at Foxconn: Not 'why', but 'is ... - ZDNET
Jan 10, 2012 · A little over a week ago, 300 employees at Foxconn's Technology Park in Wuhan, China threatened their own lives because they were denied a vital pay increase. Foxconn told them they could...
Dying for an iPhone: investigating Apple, Foxconn and the brutal ...
Apr 30, 2020 · Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers, by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, is the result of extensive undercover research in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong...