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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on May 27, 2010 at 10:05am

Not exactly a glimpse of technology production, more like a glimpse of the results of a horridly run company that doesn't care about its' workers anywhere as much as its bottom line and production output.

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Permalink Reply by S on May 27, 2010 at 10:33am

Just to add a slightly different perspective, I think it's hard to say whether the suicides are due to random chance or something to do with Foxconn. WHO has a rate of about 14 suicides per 100,000 per year in China in 1999 (the last year with data). The Foxconn factories that's been in the news has about 300,000 people living in the factory areas. So you'd expect about 42 suicides in a given year, which is a lot more than the 10 suicides that have happened so far.

I think the the suicides are something that should be looked at especially in relation to the factory conditions but the suicides could just be random coincidence being blown up by media hysteria. After all with a large enough population, even the most unlikely causes of death occur fairly often in a given time period.

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