Bill Maher Piles On the Foxconn Shame-Fest

Bill Maher interviewed Mike Daisey last week onReal metre , adding to the flagellum of late negative promotional material surrounding the conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn . Daisey is the actor who wrote and performed the one - man showThe Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs , a contemplation that faces the trade union movement upshot head - on . He in reality went to China and talked to workers outside the ill-famed Foxconn manufacturing plant in Shenzhen .

That atmospheric condition at Foxconn can be controversial is n’t novel , but for those who had n’t heard a first - person invoice , it ’s a admonisher that virtually all tech company — certainly not just Apple — are overdue for a long , toilsome look at how their supply chain proletarian are treated . [ HBO ]

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