Oh dear. The highly publicised trade union at Foxconn, the factory whose output includes Apple iPhones, is not as worker-friendly as the PR makes out. The official trade union federation, All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), of which Foxconn’s is a member. is hardly likely to lead a walk-out. Any effective collective union activity […]
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If only I’d known this show may contain nuts. Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a powerful exposé about labour abuses at the Apple factory in China, turns out to contain falsehoods. Daisey did what he claims no journalist had done: he went into the Foxconn factory under cover as
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Photo: ALPHA PRESS via Daily Telegraph I did another Sky News internet stories round-up last night, which is nerve-wrackingly exciting. While at the Sky studio I saw a couple of women walking ahead of me who were dressed in Charlie Chaplin hats and shorts. Funny, I thought. Women are already copying Shabby, the beautiful lesbian
I am currently in the Circle of Hell reserved for Powerpoint greenhorns trying to get presentations up and running for the first time. With a performance of Anna May Wong Must Die! promised for next Tuesday, and with time running out, I discover that I am encountering every technical glitch it is possible to meet.
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