Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines'
- INVESTIGATIONS
- May 1, 2011
An undercover investigation exposes illegally long working hours and low wages for staff at factory producing toys for Disney in China.
READ MOREIn the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man. by Gethin Chamberlain in Hengyang, China, 9 Jun 2018 Five o’clock in the morning and the young woman’s eyelids are drooping. All night she has been removing spots of dust from Amazon smartspeakers with a toothbrush. Time
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