Working In A Sweatshop

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Working in a sweatshop can be very depressing. in the video below, it shows that there are suicide nets as a total of 18 people have jumps from their tiny dorms onto the concrete pavement below. The people who work in the apple sweatshop in china are doing the same job over and over. For example, Jayeon Li, is working in an apple sweatshop and she was working in a tiny cubicles about 1m squared each way. Normally will be about 50 of these near the front of the building. All day Jayeon is calling people in China to try and bribe them to buy anything that is being built in that sweat shop. While Jayeon is doing this just around the corner there will be people carving Apple signs over and over or flatting plastic to go at the bottom of the iPad.

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