“Inside Foxconn’s Struggle to Make iPhones in India,”
by Viola Zhou and Nilesh Christopher
Rest of World
28 Nov 2023
Link to content : https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-india-iphone-factory/
When electronics manufacturing took off in China in the 1980s, rural women who had just begun moving to the cities made up the majority of the factory workforce. They didn’t have many other options. Managers at companies like Foxconn preferred to hire women because they believed them to be more obedient, Jenny Chan, a sociologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University who studies labor issues at Foxconn, told Rest of World.
The Sunguvarchatram plant still assembled fewer than 10% of all iPhone 15s, according to people familiar with the matter. Foxconn makes the larger Plus and more advanced Pro models exclusively in China.
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