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Why Robin Makes Batman Better In China, workers’ rights kind of suck! So when the folks who make your game consoles and electronics want to protest, they take to the roof and threaten to kill themselves. Lovely.
The iPad and the iPhone must be made in China. Ditto for, well, most everything. And it’s not only because of cheap Chinese labour. Or sprawling factories. Or lax regulations. Those are reasons, but there’s another one. And it’s one you might not expect: mud.
Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and other companies have repeatedly come under scrutiny in recent months and years for the conditions under which their high-tech gadgets are made.
OK, it’s not a plant manager. It’s not even an assembly line employee. It’s a recruiter at the Foxconn factory gate.
We’ve written many times before about the working conditions at Foxconn and other Chinese plants at which nearly all of the electronics used for gaming are manufactured. The short version is, its not great.
Taiwanese company Foxconn, the maker of most of the worlds electronics and our favourite gaming consoles, announced that it had raised the wages of junior level factory workers in Shenzhen from 1800RMB ($290) to 2200RMB ($349) a month.
After enduring weeks of criticism over the working conditions at the Chinese factories that make its products, Apple has asked the Fair labour Association to look into the matter. The FLA will audit the plants where 90% of Apple products are assembled, including the embattled Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu.
Molleindustria’s critical protest game Phone Story was designed to achieve two ends: to raise consumer awareness of the conditions under which smartphones like the iPhone are produced, and to help serve as a fundraising tool.
