Any company that has suicide nets and barred up windows is breaking some serious humanitarian laws. Free labour aside, the bleak truth for many of these students who are going down the professional track is that their country's industry isn't large enough to offer most of them placements.
Despite being smart, hard working and well educated, many will have to go into manufacturing like this after they graduate. The article talks about Xi'an that's roughly in the centre of the country, a good distance away from the international East coast where the majority of the professional appointments are.
I don't understand how people can go on pointing at the suicides when it is well known that suicide rates are lower at Foxconn than the average Chinese suicide rates?
Despite being smart, hard working and well educated, many will have to go into manufacturing like this after they graduate. The article talks about Xi'an that's roughly in the centre of the country, a good distance away from the international East coast where the majority of the professional appointments are.