This American Life Episode 454
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Inside Foxconn
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TMO Daily Observations 2016-02-04: Apple’s Hacker Hires, Foxconn Buys Sharp - Daily Observations Podcast - The Mac Observer
Apple bought the security research company behind the Thunderstrike 2 Mac exploit. Bryan Chaffin and Dave Hamilton join Jeff Gamet to look at Apple’s commitment to software and hardware security, and how putting the people who find exploits on its payroll plays into that. They also look at Foxconn’s winning bid to buy Sharp.
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Is Foxconn Getting Too Sweet A Deal In Wisconsin? : NPR
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn says it will build its first major U.S. manufacturing plant in Wisconsin. Wisconsin offered Foxconn up to $3 billion to locate there.
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539825432/is-foxconn-getting-too-sweet-a-deal-in-wisconsin
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Numerous fabrications in Apple/Foxconn revelations — Retraction | This American Life
We’ve discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace’s China correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered the fabrications. Transcript. Press Release.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction
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This American Life: 460: Retraction: Errors in Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn
We’ve discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace’s China correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered the fabrications.
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From Ford to Foxconn: A history of factories | Public Radio International
Factories created the modern world, sometimes in ways that are rarely discussed.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-23/ford-foxconn-history-factories
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The people behind your iPad: The workers | Marketplace from American Public Media
What’s life like for the thousands of workers who assemble your Apple products? Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz gained rare access to Apple’s production line at a Foxconn plant in China.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/apple-economy/people-behind-your-ipad-workers
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Reporters’ Roundtable: Apple’s China problem
Apple is the most valuable U.S. company there is, and the most powerful and influential consumer electronics company by far. It is obscenely profitable. This amazing success is built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of factory workers, almost all of them in China, who assemble iPhones, and other products from other vendors, in giant, science-fiction-scale plants that never stop. These plants take their toll. On workers in China. And on jobs here in the United states. Two recent pieces of outstanding journalism highlight the issues. First, there’s a series developing in The New York Times, co-authored by Charles Duhigg, that kicked off in the Sunday edition: "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work." A follow-on piece, "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad," ran Wednesday. Second, a "This American Life" episode, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," has reignited interest in monologuist Mike Daisey’s report of his trip to visit the birthplace of his iPhone, the Foxconn plant in China. Today we have both Charles Duhigg and Mike Daisey on the Roundtable, and we’re going to talk about Apple’s muscle, how it works with Chinese manufacturing companies, if there’s any chance that manufacturing could return to the U.S. And if it would be a good thing if it did. Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to the emerging reports on working conditions at Apple’s device manufacturers. I discussed this response with Duhigg in a separate interview, which is at the end of this Roundtable (at the 24-minute mark, if you want to go straight there).
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/#ixzz1lNosldHP
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What Foxconn’s really doing in Wisconsin, with Reply All’s Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sat down with Reply All producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni to discuss her recent reporting on Foxconn and the company’s subsequent tensions and dealings with the people of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
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Electronics-Maker Foxconn Plans Wisconsin Factory : NPR
Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturing company based in Taiwan, says it will build a manufacturing plant
in Wisconsin. Reporter Todd Frankel of The Washington Post talks with Rachel Martin.
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539682684/electronics-maker-foxconn-plans-wisconsin-factory