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Apple and Foxconn to share improvement costs
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tech giant Apple and its major supplier Foxconn say they will share the costs of better conditions for workers Chinese factories making Apple products.
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How much do you make?
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Marketplace's China correspondent Rob Schmitz discusses how Americans and Chinese differ when talking about personal finance.
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The people behind your iPad: The bosses
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Marketplace's Rob Schmitz was offered a rare glimpse into the world of Apple's usually secret supply chain. Here's the story of the people who help run Apple's Chinese producer, Foxconn.
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VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
See what life is like for the workers who help assemble your Apple products in this exclusive video footage from the Foxconn factory floor in Shenzhen, China.
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The people behind your iPad: The workers
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
What's life like for the thousands of workers who assemble your Apple products? Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz gained rare access to Apple’s production line at a Foxconn plant in China.
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Inside Foxconn as iPads get made
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Marketplace’s China correspondent travels where few have gone before and visits the production line.
A look behind the gates of Foxconn
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Monday, April 9, 2012
China correspondent Rob Schmitz is the second journalist to ever visit an Apple production line at Foxconn, where many of the world's electronics are manufactured. He describes what he saw and learned.
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A look inside a Foxconn factory
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of the few reporters to gain access into a Foxconn factory. He discusses what working conditions were like for the workers there.
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Reporter's Notebook: From both sides of the gates of Foxconn
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Marketplace's Rob Schmitz takes you behind the scenes of Foxconn for exclusive access into what life is like for the workers who help assemble your Apple products.
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Foxconn, Apple agree to improve worker conditions
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Foxconn says it'll hike pay and limit work hours after an investigation found the firm was regularly violating labor rules.
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