Dying for an iPhone: investigating Apple, Foxconn and the brutal exploitation of Chinese workers

Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai Haymarket Books 4/5 stars China is home to some of the world’s most devoted Apple fans. When company co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011, flowers were piled up outside the Apple store in Beijing. A few weeks later, however, touts egged the same store when it implemented a system aimed at stopping people buying up Apple devices and reselling them at exorbitant prices. The company’s iPhones are built in mainland China by Taiwanese…

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