Global Electronics Industry Becomes The “New Nike”

by Garrett Brown Border/Line Health and Safety July 2009 Huge factories of women workers producing consumer products for Europe and the United States under conditions of long hours, low pay, impossibly high production quotas, often unsafe machinery and unhealthy workplace exposures, and sometimes abusive treatment by supervisors and managers. Unions are banned; wages are docked for infractions of “factory rules;” weeks of mandatory overtime occur without a day off; the legal minimum wage