by Erik Kain on February 22, 2012
Foxconn has opened its doors to the Fair Labor Association and ABC News – but is it hiding something? After reports of poor working conditions and worker suicides at ‘s Chinese vendors’ manufacturing facilities, a number of groups have called for investigations and audits of the plants. The Fair Labor Association and ABC News have [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 19, 2012
In January, the New York Times published a controversial and troubling report about working conditions in Chinese FoxConn factories where products are manufactured. Beneath the smooth exterior of the iPads and iPhones that have so captured the American imagination was a supply chain riddled with workers’ rights issues. CEO responded by saying that cares “about every [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 16, 2012
Consumer watchdog group SumOfUs is calling into question remarks by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) that painted a rosy picture of FoxConn facilities in China that manufacture products like the iPhone and iPad. The FLA is the labor standards group partnered with to monitor its Chinese factory standards, though it’s unclear at this time how much [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 15, 2012
It turns out that conditions at FoxConn, the Chinese firm that helps manufacture iPads and other devices, are much better than at garment factories and other Chinese factories according to the Fair Labor Association which is conducting a review of the plants: Auret van Heerden, president of the FLA offered no immediate conclusions on the [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 16, 2012
Get ready for the iPad 3 sometime this March. is said to have begun production on the third-generation tablet earlier this month. Bloomberg is reporting that production started at the beginning of January and will reach full volume some time in February. enthusiasts have a few good reasons to be excited. 1. The next iPad [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 12, 2012
Workers at Chinese electronics giant Foxconn, angry over the shuttering of an Xbox 360 production line in the Chinese city of Wuhan, climbed to the roof of a six story dormitory and threatened to jump en masse if their conditions weren’t met. The several dozen workers threatened mass suicide after Foxconn announced layoffs and transfers of [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 28, 2011
Writing in The New York Times, Layna Mosley argues that free trade, in and of itself, has the power to raise labor standards across the globe thanks to the “California effect:” International trade gives producers incentives to meet the standards of their export markets. When developing nations export more to countries with better labor standards, [...]
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Are the chocolate bars your kids come home with on Halloween the product of child labor in Africa? Is that bag of candy you picked up at the store the end-result of children being taken from their homes and sold as slaves to cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast? A report from the International Institute of [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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