In my recently submitted PhD thesis I took a quick look at the Foxconn model of China's engagement with the world economy. Sharing that section here as Foxconn enters India with a $5bn commitment to investment in an industrial park. While investment is welcome, India must learn from mistakes that China made in the past 30 years and try and avoid them. Of course, workers' exploitation and suicides by Foxconn workers is a known issue and not going to intervene into it here. (of course, if one is interested in knowing how factories like Foxconn work, one must read Leslie Chang's Factory Girls ) Foxconn, Apple and iPad: China and the issue of Value-Addition Apple’s iconic product iPad is produced in China by Foxconn Inc., which is a registered company in Taiwan. During 2010-2011, Foxconn was embroiled in a major controversy over labour abuse issues after it came to light, following a spate of worker suicides, that the workers at the iPad production facility were n
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