Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on June 11, 2014
Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, describes her ongoing research into Foxconn’s under-documented European operations In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from – their 12-hour shifts in the nearby Foxconn factory. Most of them were recruited […]
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