by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
Mining, textiles, retail—these are the industries that are most likely to violate worker’s rights, right? Nope— turns out the electronics industry is worse, according to a recent report from Oekom, a sustainable investment research firm. (For more on that report, check out the breakdown of its findings at GreenBiz.) The appearance of monologist / investigative reporter / anti-Apple agitator Mike Daisey on the most recent episode of This American Life is leading to a whole new wave of awareness of a stark fact of electronics manufacturing: There is no “Fair Trade” standard for our electronics, even though industry watchers have been calling for one ever since the well-publicized suicides at FoxConn, China’s largest manufacturer of electronics.
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