The Wire

A new report suggests that while Ipods may cost consumers and arm and a leg in the west, those actually making them in China are earning a pittance and are working in terrible conditions to make them. A report publish in the UK’s Daily Mirror newspaper suggests that those who work in Ipod factories in China earn just $50 a month, sometimes work 15 hour days and live in squalid conditions in a compound where a mind-boggling 200,000 workers live. The Apple corporation has promised to investigate the conditions of its Chinese workers in the Shenzhen province and the factory owner maintains that his company is abiding by Chinese law.