the.com/foxconn shenzhen
the world's most efficient way to turn aluminum, glass, and overtime into an iphone.
means a massive electronics manufacturing complex in shenzhen, china, run by taiwanese firm foxconn, where much of the world's consumer electronics gets assembled.
from foxconn (hon hai precision industry) set up in shenzhen in the late 1980s to ride china's opening economic zones, growing into the largest private employer in mainland china by riding the outsourcing wave of apple, dell, and sony.
peak workforceonce housed over 400,000 workers on one campus
nicknameworkers called it iphone city
suicide netsinstalled in 2010 after a string of worker deaths
self-run cityhad its own dorms, hospitals, fire brigade, tv station
for instance
longhua campus — the original mega-factory, over 300,000 workers at its height