Categories

Apple Scamming Consumers on Sourcing and Worker Conditions

Tim Cook CEO of Apple and Workers at Foxconn Plants in China

New Orleans   Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times that Apple was claiming it was finally going to “come clean” on the real conditions of the work and workplaces of its largely Chinese subcontractors.  The reaction from those who understand the real issues and [...]

Worker Poverty in Sweat Shopping

New Orleans               An article by Ken Silverstein in Harper’s Magazine in the January 2010 issue labeled a “letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat:  The Human Cost of a Two-Dollar T-shirt” caught by eye immediately because of the controversy around Jeff Ballinger’s critique on the infinitesimally small progress that workers have made after years [...]