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Foxconn 60 th in 2011, 43 rd in 201
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successive revolutions in informati
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Figure 3.1 Foxconn Employees and Re
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subsidiaries, was located in Xixian
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In many provinces, Foxconn runs mul
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Local governments in Sichuan set up
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Besides underwriting Foxconn’s hi
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iPhones and iPads for Apple and ear
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Chapter 4 The Foxconn-Apple Connect
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from the fourth floor. 293 Miraculo
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store outside the United States) at
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Table 4.2 Apple’s Revenues by Ope
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global production network. While Ap
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In this era of the mobile technolog
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circuit boards, and assembly, to re
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long-term workers to raise producti
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Foxconn management, facing stiff pr
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In a vast construction site of half
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Apple in the opening line of its Su
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the Sichuan Provincial Propaganda D
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information and power asymmetries t
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sealed tightly in cement burying my
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20 percent were between 26 and 30.
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The spatial organization of modern
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work itself. “We cannot move past
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At about 8 a.m. on 17 March 2010, Y
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After the basic wage increase in Ju
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New workers at Foxconn receive a th
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adding up to some 800 Yuan.” “I
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Militaristic Management System Mana
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often remind assembly-line workers
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and urge us to speed up.” Line le
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By December 2009, “unions had bee
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management. Since learning of this
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Chapter 6 Students Interns or Worke
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and school teachers. In this way, F
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was a young man with whom she did n
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We’re depressed. We’ve paid for
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students regardless of field of stu
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province were made to work at Foxco
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Table 6.1 Government Recruitment As
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government support to expand its in
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4. The Public Security Department c
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One year later, in October 2013, mo
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electronics companies 563 ), in the
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ought up. Yang cultivated a strong,
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A Foxconn dorm room houses six to 1
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Yu’s roommates all came from othe
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Chen Ximei 575 lives in the Foxconn
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For a two-room unit, the monthly re
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Street hawkers at the West Gate of
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percent in 1990 to 30 percent in 20
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Chapter 8 Legal Activisms: Taking F
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assignment; otherwise Foxconn shoul
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observed that labor dispute arbitra
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especially in cases where outcomes
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at all levels have directed workers
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Foxconn abandons its employees, it
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for specialized diagnosis. He under
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In an October 2012 company statemen
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stated a 2008 Foxconn company repor
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worked at the site for two years, w
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collective actions in the street, t
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Justifying the use of paramilitary
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control and, often, 12-hour shifts
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Group Fighting and Work Stoppage In
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competition and will likely cause t
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finally talked the protesting worke
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thus far been directed exclusively
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early 2000s 658 and Walmart retail
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failed workers time and again. The
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Chapter 10 Conclusion Few in China
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development of the western part of
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workers at Foxconn, not unlike thei
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Corporate Social Responsibility in
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to monitor compliance at Foxconn.
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A number of the most impressive cas
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market competition and rising costs
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Appendix 1 Suicides at Foxconn in C
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4. Cui Hong M, 1987, Hunan 5. Zhang
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42. Chen Ximei F, 1992, Guizhou 43.
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29. Liu Shihan F, 1993, Sichuan 30.
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2. Manager Chen M, 24 3. Manager Zh
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Appendix 3 Foxconn Locations around
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