Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles iPods and is the world’s largest contract manufacturer, has hardly been out of the headlines this year.
In April and May, a wave of suicides swept through its factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen with as many as 10 young workers taking their lives – a gruesome series of events that shone light on the rigid and repetitive working conditions at many Chinese factories.
The company has also been at the forefront of another important development. It plans a radical shake-up of its China operations that would spread much more of its production to inland provinces.
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