After Suicides, Scrutiny of China’s Grim Factories
The factory’s first death this year came on Jan. 23.
The body of a 19-year-old worker named Ma Xiangqian was found in front of his high-rise dormitory at 4:30 a.m. Police investigators concluded that he had leapt from a high floor, and they ruled it a suicide.
His family, including his 22-year-old sister who worked at the same company, Foxconn Technology, said he hated the job he had held only since November–an 11-hour overnight shift, seven nights a week, forging plastic and metal into electronics parts amid fumes and dust.
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