Outsourcing
Issues arise when dealing with labor, and how poorly these big companies treat these foreign workers. In a Tech Insider video released on YouTube in 2017, a man by the name of Dejian Zeng who is an NYU graduate, spent six weeks working in an Apple factory in Shanghai. He describes the work as boring, as he would spend a 12-hour work day doing one job of screwing one screw that connected the speaker to the iPhone. They would only make about $450 a month or $5,400 a year and had only Sunday’s off. Workers are provided with one uniform, have to go to mass amounts of security, all while being shacked up with as many as eight other workers in a dorm room. Working conditions like this is what leads to uproar. People around the globe protest large companies like Apple because harsh conditions like explained. Things have gotten so out of hand, they had to put safety nets outside the buildings and on stairs so workers would not commit suicide. (See Figure A below)