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Letter from China: Apple, China, and the Truth. “This American Life,” the public-radio show, has retracted a China piece that it says it never should’ve run.

Letter from China: Apple, China, and the Truth

(Disclosure: I’m doing an unrelated piece for “This American Life” that’s scheduled to be broadcast later this year.) The retracted story was by a monologist named Mike Daisey, who described journeying to the gates of Foxconn, the Apple supplier in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. He said he interviewed hundreds of workers, finding girls who were twelve and thirteen years old and others whose “hands shake uncontrollably” from chemicals used to clean iPhone screens. He said he visited other factories and saw surveillance cameras over the beds in dorm rooms, some kind of “sci-fi, dystopian, ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘1984’ bull[BLEEP].” And in the end, he winds his warning around to us, the consumers: “They’re making your crap that way today.” The iEconomy: Apple and Technology Manufacturing - Interactive. Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.

Apple Computer Factories: Exclusive Inside Look Labor Operations. Now to an extraordinary look.

Apple Computer Factories: Exclusive Inside Look Labor Operations

Inside the world of apple the company that makes those gadgets that millions of us -- Nightline anchor Bill Weir was granted exclusive access to factory in China. Run by Apple's biggest supplier and brings us this is eight. Half -- really something we have seen exactly what goes on in there for years we've been asking the world's most valuable company for a glimpse inside for years they said no.