India’s iPhone factory is keeping women workers isolated
要約
Date Reported: 2024年3月6日
場所: インド
企業
Foxconn (part of Hon Hai) - Other Value Chain Entity , Apple - Buyerその他
Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - インド , 製造業: 一般 , Men , Unknown migration status ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - インド , 製造業: 一般 , Women , Unknown migration status )課題
Restricted mobility , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 食の権利 , Occupational Health & Safety , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of permanent contracts , 水へのアクセス , Irregular Work , 表現の自由の否定 , Right to Unionisation , 組合の自由 , 傷害 , Excessive production targets回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre & Journalists
取られた措置: Foxconn did not answer the journalists’ request for comment. Apple did not respond to the Resource Centre’s request for comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
… It had rows and rows of workers, most of them young women like Radha, bent over work tables on which were laid out tiny, metal parts. They were assembling iPhones – the most expensive and coveted mobile phones in the world – made by Apple, the second-richest tech company in the world.
The factory was run by Foxconn…with the relationship between the United States and China coming under strain, Foxconn had been scouting for new locations for its manufacturing units. The town of Sriperumbudur…seemed like a natural choice…
…She disliked the food that residents were served and also found the facilities unhygienic and poorly maintained…
… From Monday to Saturday, residents were not allowed to leave the hostel for anything except to commute to the factory…
Activists say the constraints placed on the women who live in the hostels is just one of the many ways in which the company is exercising control over its workers…
Questions sent to Foxconn went unanswered at the time of publication….
A 2006 paper that studied the dormitory labour regime in China noted that …It allowed them to extend working days if they needed to, and respond swiftly “to fluctuations in product demand”. Overall, it noted, the system served “as a form of coercive control…