Foxconn
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Dying for an iPhone
Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn’s drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China’s goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers. Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers.’
Industrial Organization in China
In 2010, Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, started relocating its factories from Guangdong toward the interior regions in China. The company has since built large production sites in three key inner cities--Chengdu, Zhengzhou, and Wuhan--as well as moved to smaller cities in the interior. The forces behind Foxconn's factory relocations can be understood through an analytical study that connects Foxconn's industrial organization to the Chinese governance structure. My core argument is that Foxconn's factory relocations are driven by a set of social relationships created by the multifaceted interactions between the company's industrial organization and China's governance structure. Foxconn's vertical integration, the highly skewed relationship in the electronics manufacturing industry, and the close relationship between Foxconn and local governments in China are the most significant social relationships driving the relocations.
