Truly, Apple Can Perform Miracles: Arts & Social-Sci Students Briefly Forced to Do Useful Work at Foxconn
23rd June 2012
A Chinese student forced to intern at Foxconn has complained that his two months on the gadget assembly line was like “military training” and unrelated to his degree, according to a local Chinese news site.
A group of students at Xi’an Technological University have complained about having to do work with with the iPhone manufacturers in order to pass their degrees, reports the Huashang News webite, via MicGadget. It’s particularly resented by arts and social sciences students, according to the Chinese news site, which reported that many felt the “work experience” was irrelevant to their studies.
June 25th, 2012 at 05:27
So we see that Apple and Foxconn have much in common with the totalitarian regime of Turkmenistan, where all high-school students are forced to work the cotton fields in the summer.
Freedom of choice? Bueller…? Bueller…?