Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Apple iPhone Global Products
- INPUTS Raw materials
- Example: Coltan
- Holds and transmits electrical signals
- Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC
- Coltan smuggled into countries to pay
for weapons
- Environmental impact: forests cleared, habitat of
lowland gorillas
- Few jobs in DRC - opportunity for poor people to
earn money
- Mining controlled by armed gangs
- OUTPUTS Products sold all over the world in
Apple Stores and other retail outlets
- PROCESSES Designed and developed in the
USA
- PROCESSES Foxconn Factory Shenzen,
China
- Workers aged 17-31
- From poor, rural
villages
- Families often live in one room and have
never seen an iPhone/iPad
- Want work experience and
income
- Get paid $2 per
hour
- Live in 8-person dorms
- Move to cities for jobs
- Help support their
families
- Make 93 million iPhones and 94 million
iPads in one year
- Two explosions of aluminium dust killed 4 and
injured 77
- 5 days and 325 sets of hands to
assemble one iPad
- Suicides and suicide nets
installed
- Tiring work
- 12 hour shifts with 2 one - hour
meal breaks
- Work in silence
- Assembly lines assemble and
package by hand in 141 steps
- Owned by a Taiwanese
Company