Inside Apple’s Factories in China
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“Nightline” anchor Bill Weir was granted unprecedented access to Foxconn, one of the Chinese companies Apple uses to manufacture their products. A Foxconn workers files down the iconic Apple logo a the company’s iPad production plant in Chengdu, China. Workers say they can each process up to 6,000 units per day. Watch a special edition of “Nightline,” TUESDAY, Feb. 21 at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT.
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Apple Foxconn
An estimated 3000 migrant workers showed up on a Monday morning outside the gates of the Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, China hoping to qualify for a job with the electronics giant.
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The crowd of hopefuls are separated by gender inside the gates of the Foxconn recruitment center. Some, still carrying their suitcases, have traveled for days to be here.
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“Suicide Prevention Nets” lined the dormitories on Foxconn’s Shenzhen Longhua campus. These nets were erected on every building during the spring of 2010 in response to a spate of employee suicides.
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A Foxconn employee wakes up for his night shift as two of his roommates continue to sleep. Eight workers share a single room in the Foxconn dormitories.
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A team of quality control employees line up in preparation to enter Foxconn’s iPad final assembly line in Chengdu, China.
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Foxconn employees work in silence on the Apple iPhone assembly line at Foxconn’s Guanlan plant in Shenzhen, China.
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An employee inspects a Macbook Pro component at Foxconn’s Longhua plant in Shenzhen, China.
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A Foxconn employee makes a final software check before the Apple Macbook Pro is boxed for shipment.
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Foxconn’s Shenzhen factories alone employs 235, 000 workers – roughly the population of Orlando, Florida.
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A single iPhone takes just under 24 hours to assemble from separate parts to final boxed product. This includes a 6-8 hour software “burning” period.
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In designated “clean” areas, employees will have to don anti-static “bunny-suits.” These three workers are assembling the camera module for Apple’s iPad.
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A Foxconn employee preps the finished and already boxed iPhone 4S for shipment around the world.
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When you order a gift wrapped iPad, it is done by Foxconn employees in Chengdu, China.
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The average starting salary at Foxconn is around $285 a month or $1.78 an hour. Even with 80 hours of overtime it considered so low that the Chinese government does not deduct any payroll taxes.
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“Nightline’s” Bill Weir shows Foxconn employee Zhou Xiaoying photos of his family on his iPad, which once upon a time was assembled in a Foxconn factory floor. Watch a special edition of “Nightline,” “iFactory: Inside Apple,” TUESDAY, Feb. 21 at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT.
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