My cheap entertainment devices were made in a Chinese sweatshop. And so were yours.
Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.[This American Life]
Mike Daisey performs an excerpt that was adapted for radio from his one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”
There is also some appalling follow up comments from an American Economic Professor about why he thinks sweatshops are good for the poor in economies like China! (:
Boy did the world ever jump the shark on poor Cathy Lee Grifford!




