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Hundreds Threaten Suicide at Foxconn

That’s the same factory that has seen a wave of suicides last year linked to working conditions on Apple production chain.

I find it hard to believe that chinese workers prefer to kill themselves rather than get on strike or adopt other forms of protest instead. I mean, we wouldn’t be there if our 18th century ancestors had killed themselves…

(Via John Gruber at Daring Fireball.)

★ Friday, 13 January 2012
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