Foxconn, a Chinese in the heart of Europe

To get closer to its European customers, the famous Taiwanese subcontractor for Apple and other manufacturers has set up in the Czech Republic. In Pardubice, Bulgarian, Romanian, Vietnamese and Mongolian workers are working on the assembly line. In Kutna Hora, a new factory is the group's showcase.

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When the world's factory rebels

On Friday 5 October 2012, thousands of workers went on strike in a factory of the Taiwanese group Foxconn in China which manufactures components for Apple's iPhone 5. This is not necessarily bad news, neither for the Chinese worker, nor for us in France...

What is happening at Foxconn is not a marginal phenomenon, but, perhaps, a warning sign, a signal, which some in trend studies would call "weak", when other popular adages might also say that it is the last straw.