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The Book To The Real World: Foxconn In China

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A great connection from the book to the real world is FOXCONN in China. This cooperation practically enslaves people for giant companies such as apple a lot like IOI makes people into its slaves. In the book, IOI makes people who don't pay their debts basically work as slaves. Everything is controlled that they do, and they have an extremely low pay and basically no other choice than to do the work. The worst part is that IOI owns almost everything, so nobody can really resist. Almost everything said earlier can be used to describe foxconn, IOI’s real life counterpart. Foxconn has workers that are constantly monitored, and the people make very low pay. In the article, the author states that a man, “worked 286 hours in the month before he died,
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