The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou - Tempest

Researcher Yige Dong explains the Foxconn iPhone factory uprising in China and its relationship to the broader uprising in China.

Tempest member Promise Li interviews Chinese feminist researcher Yige Dong, who provides context to the labor uprising at the Apple iPhone Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou and its relationship to the broader uprising in China. I n October, footage of masses of workers fleeing by foot from the Foxconn factory in China’s Zhengzhou—the world’s largest iPhone production site—surfaced online. To keep up production demands for Apple, the factory has employed a “closed-loop system” to not allow workers to return home, with minimal necessities provided. This has sparked a new wave of attention on China’s

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