Keep this in mind the next time you hear how groovy outsourcing and globalization is.
NYT reports on a suicide epidemic among workers at a company supplying many of our leading computer hardware manufacturers.
The company flak claims it's sheer coincindence.
a Foxconn spokesman in Shenzhen, said most of the victims either had been severely depressed or had serious personal problems. He said there was no evidence the deaths were work-related.
The workers tell a different story.
“We are extremely tired, with tremendous pressure,” the group quoted one worker as saying. “We finish one step in every seven seconds, which requires us to concentrate and keep working and working. We work faster even than the machines.”
If you can stomach it, Gizmodo has a somewhat more graphic account.