iPhone 4 manufacturing movie;
and the Truth; Young workers move quickly from modern, clean dormitories to huge mess
halls and then to their jobs on the assembly lines, making everything
from Apple's iPad and iPhone, to Dell computers, and products for
Hewlett Packard and Sony.
More than 300,000 people sleep, eat and
work here. There are three hospitals, a fire station, supermarkets and
restaurants all crammed on less than a square mile (2.3 square
kilometers.)
But something here is not right -- an alarming number of
workers have taken their lives or attempted suicide. So far this year,
10 people have committed suicide, while three others have tried,
according to Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm and local authorities, and no one
knows why.
"We're asking ourselves the same question," said company
spokesman, Liu Kun. "Foxconn has never seen anything like this before in
the past 20 years of operating on the mainland. We've checked the work
records and couldn't find any direct link between the working conditions
and the suicides."
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