Description
The price war of smartphone/ tech companies buy minerals and ingredients from Africa without employee welfare system/ Self-employed miners are treating in nonsense way(Gang rape and child abduction)
Idea of the assignment: Nowadays, smartphone becomes an essential part in our daily life. More and more tech companies get into the price war of smartphone in order to maximize their market occupation. However, behind the inevitable price of smartphone, the primary resource producers are in an unfair treatment in the industries.
In Africa:
There is no organization represents the miners, most of them are self-employed. Without the complete instruction, their health and life-safety are under danger.(Congo: Gang rape and child abduction)
In China
At the end of last year, Foxconn was accused of illegally employing 17-to-19-year-old students to work overtime to help build the iPhone X. The interns said they were made to work an 11-hour day assembling the flagship device, in violation of Chinese law
Critique:
In the past, their have similar controversy about the coffee beans industries. People solved it as using the fair trade concept, Should tech companies bring this concept in the smartphone business as well? More importantly, Are customers concern about how unethical of the smartphone’s production?Or price is the only factor they care about?
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