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Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul.

New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames.

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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com

I know what this article is trying to do, but there’s something wrong here if the choice is to either have no manufacturing jobs, or to live under employment conditions that require you to be constantly available to be awakened in the middle of the night and put to work.

  • The New York Times

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