Monday, February 6, 2012

Foxcon Relates To Oliver Twist

The company Foxcon produces many Apply Products such as; IPhone, Ipad, Ipod.  Foxcon does produce these extravagant products but at what cost to the workers?  From what I’ve seen is that Foxcon doesn't treat the workers like they should.  The workers work in extremely poor conditions.  They also don't get paid near enough money to endure what they endure on and everyday basis.  Some even commit suicide because they don't want to work in these conditions any longer.


The Novel Oliver Twist can be related to Foxcon in many ways.  They can be related because In the book Oliver Twist the owners slave drive their workers (That Are Children) to produce more product.  But they don't get paid, and don't get fed very much, and there living conditions are worse than what a dog lives in.  This is basically the same as Foxcon.  In Foxcon the workers (Some under age) live around construction and demolition.  They also work with a polishing agent that is very toxic, but the building that they work in doesn't have adequate ventilation.  Some workers at Foxcon even commit suicide because they don't want to work any longer in these conditions.  Foxcon treats their workers like this because the less they pay their workers and the less they use on wellbeing then the more profit they make for all their products they produce.


The reason Foxcon is doing treating their workers like worthless animals is because the less money Foxcon must fork out to take care of their workers equals more profit for the company and the CEO's.  In my opinion I think that this is morally and ethically wrong.  No human being should be treated like an animal and treated like one also.  I would honestly pay more for an apple product, knowing that the workers would be treated much better than they do know. But I don't think that Foxcon would take that risk.  They would rather treat their workers like animals and make more money than treat their workers right and make a little less money.

1 comment:

  1. My topic Sentence could have been better than "The Company Foxcon produces many Apple Products such as; Iphone, Ipad, Ipod. I could have gave more detail about what I was going to talk about. I think that I did a good job giving details from the reading. But most of my sentences were really long, I could have split them up and made a couple short and a couple long. But 90% of them are really long.

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