Foxconn, the world's biggest contract manufacturer, employs more than
one million people in China alone, working for Apple and many other
brands. Foxconn's workers, the iSlaves, face horrendous working
conditions while producing iPhones and iPads. In 2010 a series of worker
suicides at Chinese Foxconn factories drew world-wide attention. The
situation has not changed much since: instead of improving conditions,
Foxconn accelerated the relocation of factories to the Chinese
hinterland, and still relies on its militaristic management regime.
However, Foxconn-workers are far from being quiet victims. They have
used every-day forms of resistance against the assembly line and have
held strikes in various Foxconn factories around China. The talk is
based on gongchao.org's collective research, by a member of the collective gongchao.

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