Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Dragon year for high tech

Staying in the holiday spirit of the Year of the Dragon, here’s a story from the NY Times on why US companies are sending operations overseas. The focus is on Apple & China.

Foxconn, highlighted in the story, also manufactures the telecommunications equipment for the company I’m working for (until Friday, when my contract runs out). I myself don’t like the idea that the people in Foxconn’s factories threaten mass suicide because of the working conditions.

But I don’t know where to go, what company or industry to target, where that’s not the case. (Not mass suicide—not yet; just miserable working conditions.)

And I'm just wondering how celebratory the workers at Foxconn and the hundreds of other high-tech feeder factories are feeling about the Year of the Dragon?


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