Revealed: Inside the Chinese suicide sweatshop where workers toil in 3. Pod. By. Andrew Malone for the Daily Mail. Richard Jones. Updated. BST, 1. 1 June 2.

When Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled his latest creation this week, the event was given quasi- religious significance. At a ceremony in San Francisco, more than 5,0. His latest i. Phone, like the models before, is expected to generate billions in sales. Steel wire meshes have been fitted to windows at Foxconn's factory to. And with sales of his new i. Pad hitting one million in the U. S. From those humble, supposedly spiritual beginnings, he is now a business behemoth, eclipsing Bill Gates at Microsoft as the most powerful man in computing.

Apple's income currently approaches . He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.' Yet, amid all the fanfare and celebrations this week, there was one sour, niggling note: reports of a spate of suicides at a secretive Chinese complex where Jobs's i. Phone, i. Pod and i. Pad - Apple's new state- of- the- art slimline computer - are built and assembled. Foxconn employs 4. Shenzhen plant where conditions are very basic with no air- conditioning. For, as Apple's leader was taking a bow on the world stage, the Mail was under cover inside this Chinese complex.

And we encountered a strange, disturbing world where new recruits are drilled along military lines, ordered to stand for the company song and kept in barracks like battery hens - all for little more than . They have 8. 00,0. The human traps are to prevent people jumping to their deaths and smashing themselves on the pavements below. Shaven- headed and wearing long robes, groups of monks have been seen chanting and praying amid baffled, exhausted workers. Anyone appearing mentally ill or stressed is being identified by a special 'spotters' team set up to keep tabs on the workforce.

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Workers say some dormitories house more than 4. This is intended, as Gou puts it, to 'agglomerate them to act in unison and in concert' so that he can build a 'unique Foxconnian culture'.

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Points are deducted for crimes such as having long nails, being late, yawning, eating, sitting on the floor, talking or walking quickly. I walked the same path from dorm to factory and back to dorm.

That was my world. How To Watch 10000 KM (2015) Movie. There were 1. 2 workers in my dorm, with some doing days, others nights and there was not a single person to talk to.'. Ma Xiangqian, 1. 8, who killed himself earlier this year after just three months at Foxconn, was too scared to give up his job, despite the pressure, knowing poverty awaited as thousands compete for a single post.

He slowly cracked. First, he was 'fined' from his wages for breaking two tools by accident. After being exhorted to work harder, he was eventually taken off the production line and forced to wash toilets for several weeks as punishment. On January 2. 3, he was found in a pool of blood at the foot of his dormitory block. His sister, who also worked at Foxconn, was told he had fainted and was recovering in hospital. She was then told that Ma was a victim of unexplained 'sudden death'.

No. smiles: Workers look on from a Foxconn logo near the gate of a Foxconn. Longhua, Guangdong province To the fury of his dead employees' relatives, Gou also claimed that some people had killed themselves for the money - saying they wanted Foxconn's 'generous compensation' for their families. We found her at a Shenzhen hospital, although her name was not on official ward records. He was on the night shift for a month and had worked overtime every night, according to his wife. It's meaningless.

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