End the 'world factory' model

Despite the negative media coverage, thousands of people still apply every day to work at Foxconn, and hopeful applicants pay to secure a job there.

RECENT walkouts at a Honda manufacturing plant, suicides at Foxconn facilities and workers’ protests in Guangdong, Yunnan, Henan, Gansu, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces have raised questions on the cheap labour model which has driven China’s economy over the past three decades.