21st Feb 2012

Can Apple change the world? Does Tim Cook want to?

“The work itself isn’t inhumane—unless you consider a repetitive, exhausting, and alienating workplace over which you have no influence or authority to be inhumane. And that would pretty much describe every single manufacturing or burger-flipping job ever". Joel Johnson’s first hand description of the working environment at Foxconn a year ago hits the nail on the head. Terry Gou’s city-like factories have created a showcase for the combined dehumanizing eff...READ MORE

13th Feb 2012

Apple needs your money

Apple Store, Bull Ring Level 3, Upper Mall West Birmingham, B5 4BU 9th February 2012 Dear friends at Apple, I have been shocked to see among the recent flurry of articles on the appalling conditions at the Foxconn factories in China, an indictment against me, saying that until customers care more about working conditions than they do about low prices, nothing will change. If I am culpable, I wish to make amends. I therefore enclose a cheque for £10, the suggested difference between ma...READ MORE

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