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Article

17 Oct 2011

Author:
Charles Isherwood, New York Times [USA]

Moral Issues Behind iPhone and Its Makers

Mike Daisey[‘s] latest theatrical monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” is a mind-clouding, eye-opening exploration of the moral choices we unknowingly or unthinkingly make when we purchase nifty little gadgets like the iPhone and the iPad and the PowerBook...About half of all consumer electronics sold in the world today are produced at a single mammoth factory campus in Shenzhen, China, according to Mr. Daisey. His illuminating trip to...the sprawling Foxconn Technology plant, forms the dramatic spine of his...exploration of the rise of Apple...[T]he show is most engrossing, and most disturbing, when Mr. Daisey delves into the grim realities of workers’ lives in Shenzhen...(He does not refer to an investigation Apple made into worker conditions at Foxconn this year)...