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Where Apple Products Are Born: A Rare Glimpse Inside Foxconn's Factory Gates | Re/code - 0 views

  • Where Apple Products Are Born: A Rare Glimpse Inside Foxconn’s Factory Gates
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Woo said some 1.5 million students have completed their trade education at the school since 2007.
  • 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.
Gene Ellis

What will it take for the euro zone to cut Greece loose? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • What will it take for the euro zone to cut Greece loose?
Gene Ellis

What To Buy If Greece Exits The Euro Zone - 0 views

  • What To Buy If Greece Exits The Euro Zone
Gene Ellis

A mishap should not seal Greece's fate - FT.com - 0 views

  • A mishap should not seal Greece’s fate
Gene Ellis

Latin America's Real Corruption Crisis - The Globalist - 0 views

  • Latin America’s Real Corruption Crisis
Gene Ellis

European manufacturers getting more positive amid lower euro - Yahoo News - 0 views

  • European manufacturers getting more positive amid lower euro
Gene Ellis

Profit at iPhone Assembler Foxconn Rose 22% Last Year - WSJ - 0 views

  • Profit at iPhone Assembler Foxconn Rose 22% Last Year
Gene Ellis

An inside look at China's 'new normal' economy - MarketWatch - 0 views

  • Opinion: An inside look at China’s ‘new normal’ economy
Gene Ellis

Double digit unemployment predicted even if eurozone recovers - FT.com - 0 views

  • Double digit unemployment predicted even if eurozone recovers
Gene Ellis

Tencent, Foxconn & China Harmony Unite to Build Smart Cars - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ.com - 0 views

  • Tencent, Foxconn & China Harmony Unite to Build Smart Cars - Analyst Blog
Gene Ellis

Could Europe lose Greece to Russia? - BBC News - 0 views

  • Could Europe lose Greece to Russia?
Gene Ellis

With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over
Gene Ellis

Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction
  • Battling a low birthrate among its citizens, the government opened the floodgates to foreign labor over the past decade and a half. More than a third of the 5.5 million people living in Singapore today are not citizens.The number of nonresident immigrants has more than doubled since 2000, to nearly 1.6 million from 754,000. The number of foreigners given permanent resident status also nearly doubled during the same period, to just over 500,000.
Gene Ellis

The bailout crisis: Germany's view of how Greece fell from grace | World news | The Gua... - 0 views

  • The bailout crisis: Germany’s view of how Greece fell from grace
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