{"id":263,"date":"2006-06-15T20:47:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/15\/apple-enslaving-chinese-workers\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T19:51:55","slug":"apple-enslaving-chinese-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/15\/apple-enslaving-chinese-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple enslaving Chinese workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,71138-0.html?tw=wn_index_3\">Mail on Sunday<\/a> tells us about the manufacturing of iPods from Steve Jobs&#8217; company that is using advertisments asking us to <em>Think different<\/em> with the assistance of left-wing political idols as prominent as Gandhi or Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>But the  200,000 Foxconn workers, one of the Chinese suppliers of Apple, would be paid only 50$ per month (which is low even for a Chinese wage).<\/p>\n<p>The attack may not be supported by a lot of evidence for the time being, this may look like a very common practice in the assembly manufacturing sub-contracting industry, but Apple could (should?) feel forced to have the highest industry standard, knowing their political posture. In this context, Apple announced to MacWorld UK that they would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?home&#038;NewsID=14935\">investigating the issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Apple forgetting their &#8220;Think different&#8221; political\/advertising message with the help of Chinese sub-contractor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,69,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-liberties","category-music","category-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}