China's factory employees worked to Death?

China’s Factory employees worked to Death?

Foxconns’ workers begin committing suicide due to the harsh lifestyle

BY KACIE R.

At a factory called Foxconn in Shenzhen, China, thirteen people in the past year have tried to commit suicide, ten succeeding. What’s the problem? They don’t know. Foxconn makes many products, including the Apple iPhone, and Dell and Sony computers. With over 300,000 employees that both work and live there, it is similar to a city inside a city.

It has its own restaurants, library’s, fire stations, super markets, and

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three hospitals. It also has dormitories, where the employees live with seven other roommates. Some people think it is the dehumanizing lifestyle that drives some to do something drastic to themselves. At Foxconn, employees get up, eat breakfast, go to work where they spend long shifts that earn them about three hundred American dollars a month, and then go back to their dormitories to sleep.

At work, they are little more that machines, while in their dormitories, most don’t even know their roommates names.

Foxconn employee

"…if you have to support your family, than you have to do whatever it takes…" says Jenny N., answering my question: why do you think people still work here even though they know about the suicides. What leads them to suicide? "I think they are put into harsh circumstances and they don't know how to cope with it." she replied.

So what now? What should Foxconn do? They should take action. They should learn everything about the lifestyle's of the employees, and make sure that their living conditions are suited for a human being, not a machine.