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Over the years, Foxconn factories saw suicides and other horrors. At one point, Foxconn installed nets around their factories to prevent people from killing themselves. But McGee stresses that the ...

The company’s credibility first came into question when in 2010 there were a spate of suicides linked to low pay and brutal working conditions at the Foxconn City industrial park in Shenzhen.

Foxconn is once again facing scrutiny over the working conditions at one of its iPhone manufacturing factories in China. A worker committed suicide on Saturday, January 6, by jumping from a window.

The company faced a further headache 12 months later, when 150 Foxconn employees in Wuhan, stood on the roof of a factory building and threatened mass suicide to protest against working conditions.

According to these allegations, Foxconn has been forcing around 3,000 high school students to work overtime to assemble the new iPhone X, often working 11-hour days at one of the company’s ...

Foxconn first came under international scrutiny after a rash of 18 suicide attempts in 2010—all of them jumpers. 14 of these were successful.

Foxconn’s response was to install suicide nets and to force new employees to sign an anti-suicide pledge that states Foxconn will not be held responsible in the case of worker suicides.

In 2010 alone, 18 workers, all of whom were 25 and younger, attempted to jump to their deaths. This is no doubt why Foxconn placed a net below its employee’s dormitories.

After those episodes, Foxconn installed safety nets and rails on dormitory buildings to prevent such incidents. In the pictures taken of the Zhengzhou dorms, however, no such precautionary ...