Exclusive: Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices
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- August 10, 2019
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Apple’s Chinese workers treated ‘inhumanely, like machines’0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- May 1, 2011
Gethin Chamberlain, for The Observer, 1 May 2011 An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west. The research, carried out by two NGOs, has revealed disturbing allegations of excessive working hours and draconian workplace
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Hey Alexa: does Amazon use underpaid and exhausted workers to make its Echo and Kindle?0
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- June 9, 2018
In the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man. by Gethin Chamberlain in Hengyang, China, 9 Jun 2018 Five o’clock in the morning and the young woman’s eyelids are drooping. All night she has been removing spots of dust from Amazon smartspeakers with a toothbrush. Time
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Exclusive: Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices0
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- August 10, 2019
Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours
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Revealed: Disney’s £35 Ariel doll earns a Chinese worker 1p0
- ASIA, INVESTIGATIONS, WORLD
- December 7, 2018
An undercover investigation exposes illegally long working hours and low wages for staff at factory producing toys for Disney in China.
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Disney factory faces probe into sweatshop suicide claims0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- August 27, 2011
Gethin Chamberlain, for The Observer, 27 August 2011 DISNEY’S best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law, according to an investigation. One worker reportedly killed herself after being repeatedly shouted at by bosses. Others cited
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Kanye West’s £150 Yeezy trainers are made by Chinese workers earning just £147 a MONTH1
- INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS
- April 12, 2017
Apache Footwear staff are paid the equivalent of 85p an hour based on a five-day week to make the star’s Adidas trainers Gethin Chamberlain for The Daily Mirror, 12 April 2017 Factory workers making Kanye West ’s new Adidas trainers are paid just £147 a month, £3 less than the price of the £150 sneakers.
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The grim truth of Chinese factories producing the West’s Christmas toys0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- December 6, 2016
Investigation exposes low wages, hazardous chemicals and overtime beyond legal limits Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 4 December 2016 Xiao Fang thinks she’s one of the luckier workers making Barbie dolls for the Christmas market at the Mattel toy factory in Chang’an. True, she says, she works 11-hour days, six days a week, and shares
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Revealed: Disney's £35 Ariel doll earns a Chinese worker 1p
- ASIA, INVESTIGATIONS, WORLD
- December 7, 2018
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