http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/10/16/charles-dickens-today-child-labor-used-in-factory-that-makes-apple-products Comments On: Charles Dickens Today: Child Labor Used in Factory that Makes Apple Products by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Kinison]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:50:51 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:22:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:09:19 -0700 The Stranger set back any effort* to improve things for Chinese workers.

He did? How many people have even heard of Mike Daisey?
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:01:49 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:42:52 -0700 The Stranger "It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor."

Now with economies in difficult positions, slavery, debt peonage and child labor are flourishing.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:30:35 -0700 The Stranger
maybe I'm totally off base here, but Apple products are already more expensive than most other electronic gadgetry. while that price might not be so much due to labor costs as a way to make obscene profits, it seems to me that people who buy things from Apple are already accustomed to paying more.

...of course when you can get an iPhone for less than $200 with your cell upgrade, maybe 5280 is right. but I'd think that entitlement then reflects American consumers as a whole no matter what they're buying, rather than just whoever you feel like pointing the finger at, no?
Posted by LEE.]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:28:05 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MR M]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:11:25 -0700 The Stranger
buy American.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:06:11 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:56:33 -0700 The Stranger
And there's nothing to wonder about the Mike Daisey controversy. He presented fiction as fact. He did it because presenting the truth in fiction wouldn't have had the same impact. So he lied, and set back any effort* to improve things for Chinese workers.

* If, in fact, any real effort is or was underway.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:44:35 -0700 The Stranger Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:36:27 -0700 The Stranger Posted by tiktok]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:28:24 -0700 The Stranger
I feel like right now all these articles do is fuel some anti-Apple schadenfreude while allowing users of Samsungs or Motorolas to falsly think they're not part of the problem.
Posted by MR M]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:26:00 -0700 The Stranger