Here you can are all the sources I used to help my research, in order to create this website.
Bibliography
“Apple’s Chinese Workers Forced to Sign Anti-Suicide Pledge.” Public Intelligence. Last modified May 1, 2011. Accessed March 17, 2015. https://publicintelligence.net/apples-chinese-workers-forced-to-sign-anti-suicide-pledge/.
I used this site strictly for the picture on it, they had many good images of the suicide nets outside the factories.
Balfour, Frederik, and Tim Culpan. “Everything Is Made by Foxconn in Future Evoked by Gou’s Empire.” Edited by Hugo Lindgren and Young-Sam Cho. Bloomberg Business. Last modified September 9, 2010. Accessed March 12, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-09-09/everything-is-made-by-foxconn-in-future-evoked-by-terry-gou-s-china-empire.
This article has a lot of background information on the founder and founding of Foxconn. It tells the story and gives insight as to how he got started, and how the company started out. I used this website for direct quotes and information on Foxconn.
Barboza, David. “After Suicides, Scrutiny of China’s Grim Factories.” The New York Times. Last modified June 6, 2010. Accessed March 10, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07suicide.html?_r=0.
This article will be good for my research because it was written in the middle of 2010, which is right when the suicide issue was big, and people were just reacting. The article also gives some good background on why someone may feel the need to commit suicide when working there because it talks about the factory conditions and gives background on why the workers are unhappy. I used this for quotes on my website and more information on the suicide victims.
Foxconn. Last modified 2013. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.foxconn.com/.
This is Foxconn’s official website, one of the main companies in China. This website offers insight into what the companies policies are, what their philosophy is and how they are presenting themselves. I used this for direct quotes on my website and to see what Foxconn had to say on the issues
Foxconn Official Logo. Image. Wikimedia Commons. December 14, 2014. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Foxconn_logo.svg.
This is just the logo of Foxconn, on a wikipedia page for the use of adding to a website. I plan to use this for my headers on the pages of my website.
Jain, Rounak. “Rare Footage of iPhone Assembly Line at Foxconn’s Factory [Video].” iPhone Hacks. Last modified May 26, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/05/iphone-assembly-line-at-foxconn-factory-video.html.
I cited this website only so I was able to use the picture of workers in the factories on it.
Law, Tony. Portrait of Terry Gou. Photograph. Fortune. April 19, 2011. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2011/news/international/1104/gallery.asia_most_powerful.fortune/7.html.
I used this image so I would have a picture of Gou on my website.
Mozur, Paul. “Life Inside Foxconn’s Facility in Shenzhen.” The Wall Street Journal China, December 19, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
This website gives an insight as to what life inside a factories is really like, they use images and words to get the point across. The article is also written in China, so it gives insight as to what the people there think of this situation. I used this website for direct quotes on my website.
———A Picture of a Dorm on One of the Campuses. Photograph. The Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this picture to show what the dorms look like, because I talk about them in the information.
———A Picture of a Employee Care Center. Photograph. Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this image to show the care center when I was describing it
———A Picture of Working Eating in One of the Many Cafeterias. Photograph. The Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this picture to show just some of the mass amount of people working there, and what the inside of the cafeterias look like.
A Photo of Gou and His New Wife on Their Wedding Day. Photograph. The China Post. July 27, 2008. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2008/07/27/167294/Tycoon-Gou.htm.
I wanted to use this picture to help humanize Gou and show him out of work and the factory.
A Picture of Ma Xiangqian’s ID Card from Foxconn. Photograph. The New York Times. June 6, 2010. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07suicide.html?_r=1.
I used this image to add something to my website, and it is the ID of the first suicide victim. I think it could be a hard image to see but will help to make the problem seem real, and gives a face to the man I’m talking about
Thompson, Mark. “Foxconn’s China Workers to Get More Union Rights.” CNN Money. Last modified February 4, 2013. Accessed March 4, 2015. http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/04/investing/foxconn-china-union/.
This website offers some background info and stats on the situation at Foxconn, as well as what the workers are doing to fix it, and what actions they are taking. I hope this will lead me to more sources and information about the workers and unions. I know this website can be more liberal, but I think it will be good to hear all sides. I used this for direct quotes.
Weir, Bill. “Inside Apple: Changes Made at Foxconn.” Video file, 06:13. ABC News. March 29, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/inside-apple-made-foxconn-16035348.
This video gives a look inside the factory, a lot of good information on what the company is doing, but also what the people think. It shows video of the people working, and give their opinions on how things are. This video is good because it shows things from both sides, how the workers feel, what the law says, and how the head of the companies think. I used this video for background information for my research.
Workers on a Line inside the Factory. Photograph. apple insider. July 6, 2014. Accessed March 7, 2015. http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/07/06/foxconn-to-replace-iphone-6-assembly-line-workers-with-foxbot-robots-.
I used this as a picture on the front page of my website.
“The World’s Billionaires.” Forbes. Last modified 2015. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static.
I used this website to get statistics on how Gou’s fortune/wealth compared to others around the world.
Bibliography
“Apple’s Chinese Workers Forced to Sign Anti-Suicide Pledge.” Public Intelligence. Last modified May 1, 2011. Accessed March 17, 2015. https://publicintelligence.net/apples-chinese-workers-forced-to-sign-anti-suicide-pledge/.
I used this site strictly for the picture on it, they had many good images of the suicide nets outside the factories.
Balfour, Frederik, and Tim Culpan. “Everything Is Made by Foxconn in Future Evoked by Gou’s Empire.” Edited by Hugo Lindgren and Young-Sam Cho. Bloomberg Business. Last modified September 9, 2010. Accessed March 12, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-09-09/everything-is-made-by-foxconn-in-future-evoked-by-terry-gou-s-china-empire.
This article has a lot of background information on the founder and founding of Foxconn. It tells the story and gives insight as to how he got started, and how the company started out. I used this website for direct quotes and information on Foxconn.
Barboza, David. “After Suicides, Scrutiny of China’s Grim Factories.” The New York Times. Last modified June 6, 2010. Accessed March 10, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07suicide.html?_r=0.
This article will be good for my research because it was written in the middle of 2010, which is right when the suicide issue was big, and people were just reacting. The article also gives some good background on why someone may feel the need to commit suicide when working there because it talks about the factory conditions and gives background on why the workers are unhappy. I used this for quotes on my website and more information on the suicide victims.
Foxconn. Last modified 2013. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://www.foxconn.com/.
This is Foxconn’s official website, one of the main companies in China. This website offers insight into what the companies policies are, what their philosophy is and how they are presenting themselves. I used this for direct quotes on my website and to see what Foxconn had to say on the issues
Foxconn Official Logo. Image. Wikimedia Commons. December 14, 2014. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Foxconn_logo.svg.
This is just the logo of Foxconn, on a wikipedia page for the use of adding to a website. I plan to use this for my headers on the pages of my website.
Jain, Rounak. “Rare Footage of iPhone Assembly Line at Foxconn’s Factory [Video].” iPhone Hacks. Last modified May 26, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/05/iphone-assembly-line-at-foxconn-factory-video.html.
I cited this website only so I was able to use the picture of workers in the factories on it.
Law, Tony. Portrait of Terry Gou. Photograph. Fortune. April 19, 2011. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://archive.fortune.com/galleries/2011/news/international/1104/gallery.asia_most_powerful.fortune/7.html.
I used this image so I would have a picture of Gou on my website.
Mozur, Paul. “Life Inside Foxconn’s Facility in Shenzhen.” The Wall Street Journal China, December 19, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
This website gives an insight as to what life inside a factories is really like, they use images and words to get the point across. The article is also written in China, so it gives insight as to what the people there think of this situation. I used this website for direct quotes on my website.
———A Picture of a Dorm on One of the Campuses. Photograph. The Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this picture to show what the dorms look like, because I talk about them in the information.
———A Picture of a Employee Care Center. Photograph. Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this image to show the care center when I was describing it
———A Picture of Working Eating in One of the Many Cafeterias. Photograph. The Wall Street Journal China. December 19, 2012. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/12/19/life-inside-foxconns-facility-in-shenzhen/.
I used this picture to show just some of the mass amount of people working there, and what the inside of the cafeterias look like.
A Photo of Gou and His New Wife on Their Wedding Day. Photograph. The China Post. July 27, 2008. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2008/07/27/167294/Tycoon-Gou.htm.
I wanted to use this picture to help humanize Gou and show him out of work and the factory.
A Picture of Ma Xiangqian’s ID Card from Foxconn. Photograph. The New York Times. June 6, 2010. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07suicide.html?_r=1.
I used this image to add something to my website, and it is the ID of the first suicide victim. I think it could be a hard image to see but will help to make the problem seem real, and gives a face to the man I’m talking about
Thompson, Mark. “Foxconn’s China Workers to Get More Union Rights.” CNN Money. Last modified February 4, 2013. Accessed March 4, 2015. http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/04/investing/foxconn-china-union/.
This website offers some background info and stats on the situation at Foxconn, as well as what the workers are doing to fix it, and what actions they are taking. I hope this will lead me to more sources and information about the workers and unions. I know this website can be more liberal, but I think it will be good to hear all sides. I used this for direct quotes.
Weir, Bill. “Inside Apple: Changes Made at Foxconn.” Video file, 06:13. ABC News. March 29, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2015. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/inside-apple-made-foxconn-16035348.
This video gives a look inside the factory, a lot of good information on what the company is doing, but also what the people think. It shows video of the people working, and give their opinions on how things are. This video is good because it shows things from both sides, how the workers feel, what the law says, and how the head of the companies think. I used this video for background information for my research.
Workers on a Line inside the Factory. Photograph. apple insider. July 6, 2014. Accessed March 7, 2015. http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/07/06/foxconn-to-replace-iphone-6-assembly-line-workers-with-foxbot-robots-.
I used this as a picture on the front page of my website.
“The World’s Billionaires.” Forbes. Last modified 2015. Accessed March 17, 2015. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static.
I used this website to get statistics on how Gou’s fortune/wealth compared to others around the world.