The Fair Labor association has just released its anticipated report
on its investigation of Apple’s labor conditions at the Foxconn
factories in China. The FLA is an independent organization that Apple voluntarily asked to audit its factoriesafter its working conditions came under question and harsh criticism in January, most notably by the now infamous and falsified Mike Daisey episode of This American Life.
The FLA reports that it interviewed 35,000 workers at Foxconn
factories in Guanlan, Longhua, and Chengdu. The largest of these, the
Guanlan factory, employs 73,000 workers. Of the 35,000 people
interviewed, the FLA reports that only 4 percent of them were under the
age of 18 (16 is the legal working age in China).
We’ve broken out some of the relevant findings below.
