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Steve Jobs
?It?s all about Jobs. Steve Jobs. Although he was brilliant, creative and a successful CEO, he had one flaw: He outsourced Apple.?
So writes Joel D. Joseph, chairman of the Made in the USA Foundation, a Los Angeles-based group that promotes U.S. products here and abroad. Here?s the rest of Joseph?s provocative essay about Jobs, the brilliant technology pioneer who died in October, and Apple Inc.? (NASDAQ:AAPL), the $108 billion company he created:
?Mr. Jobs could have created a hundred thousand jobs in the United States, but instead he created them in China and Korea. Apple can still move many of those jobs back to the United States.
Outsourcing
Foxconn is one of the primary subcontractors for Apple. It is the world?s largest maker of electronic products, including the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Foxconn employs from 300,000 to 450,000 workers in Shenzhen, China at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a cramped, walled campus sometimes known as ?Foxconn City? or ?iPod City.? Covering more than one square mile, its enclave includes 15 factories, worker dormitories and a shopping area complete with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and a hospital. Workers never have to leave the campus, and rarely do.
Apple?s iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as $40 per month, according to a report in Britain?s Daily Mail. The report claims Foxconn?s workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15 hours a day to make the iPod music player, the report claims. They earn $40 per month. The report revealed that the iPod Nano is made in a five-story factory that is secured by police officers.
Steve Symanovich is editor of the San Francisco Business Times.
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