Repost: „[Statement] iSlave 6 : Harsher than Harsher! Still Made in Sweatshops! | Sacom“

Ich erlaube mir, den folgenden Blog-Beitrag vollständig (mit kleinen Änderungen in der Formatierung) zu übernehmen.

Der Begriff „iSlave 6“ macht klar, worum es geht.

„[Statement] iSlave 6 : Harsher than Harsher! Still Made in Sweatshops! 19th September, 2014, Hong KongToday

19th September is the official launch day of the pre-reserved iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus which are remarkably configured with bigger size of touch screen. Although some customers may be impressed by the new product, SACOM discloses the unacceptable slavery working condition in Pegatron Corporation, which is one of the key Apple’s suppliers producing about 50% of iPhone 6.According to our newly investigative report entitled “The Lives of Apple’s iSlave in its Pegatron Sweatshops in China”, the dark side of Apple’s success and its failure to closely monitor suppliers’ corporate behavior have been disclosed. SACOM researchers have found that there are a number of practices in the factory violating

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Interesting journal: „tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society“

„tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.

Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing in the information society today.It promotes contributions within an emerging science of the information society with a special interest in critical studies following the highest standards of peer review.It is a journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas.The journal has a special interest in disseminating articles that focus on the role of information cognition/knowledge, communication, cooperation in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist

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