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Where Apple Products Are Born: A Rare Glimpse Inside Foxconn’s Factory Gates
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The 1.4 mile-square Longhua complex, with its 140,000 employees, speaks to Shenzhen’s identity as a global manufacturing hub. The city, once a fishing village in the Pearl River Delta region, was designated as a special economic zone in 1980. Its population swelled from 30,000 to more than 10 million as rural workers migrated to the fast-growing city in search of opportunity.
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Though Woo notes, by way of context, that 12 suicides per one million employees is lower than the U.S. suicide rate of 13 per 100,000
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It’s a nod to the average age of the Foxconn employee, which is 18 to 25
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Woo said some 1.5 million students have completed their trade education at the school since 2007.
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Foxconn has raised its base wage from a reported $153 a month to a starting salary of $306 for a 40-hour week — with pay increasing to $402 after a three-month probationary period.
