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China: What’s behind the Foxconn suicides?

Tuesday 5 October 2010

China: What’s behind the Foxconn suicides?

A startling 13 young workers attempted or committed suicide at the two Foxconn production facilities in southern China between January and May 2010

chinaworker.info recommends the following in-depth study of the Foxconn suicides, which examines the business model of Foxconn and other multinational companies and the conditions of migrants workers in China. The suicides at Foxconn’s massive assembly plants in Shenzhen can be interpreted as acts of “protest against a global labor regime that is widely practiced in China”, say the authors, Jenny Chan and Ngai Pun, in their article Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State.

“First, leading international brands have adopted unethical purchasing practices, resulting in substandard conditions in their global electronics supply chains. Second, management has used abusive and illegal methods to raise worker efficiency, generating widespread grievances and resistance at the workplace level. Third, local Chinese officials in collusion with enterprise management, systematically neglect workers’ rights, resulting in widespread misery and deepened social inequalities. The Foxconn human tragedy raises profound concerns about the working lives of the new generation of Chinese migrant workers. It also challenges the state-driven policy based on the use of internal rural migrant workers, whose labor and citizenship rights have been violated,” say the authors. The full article can be accessed below.

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