Gadgets And Global Supply Chains
Good New York Times article about a squeezed American middle-class and the realities of a global manufacturing landscape, using Apple’s iPhone as the prime example.
Foxconn Technology assembles an estimated 40 percent of the world’s consumer electronics.
“They could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?”
(Emphasis mine)
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