Archive for the ‘From the Factory Floor’ Category

Chinese Employees are Going for More Frequent Walks

Monday, July 19, 2010 1:43 No Comments

The last few months have been filled with labor issues, and while the Foxconn issues received perhaps the most coverage, the recent Reuters Factbox: China Labor Strikes led me to ask one of my interns to see what else she could find in a couple hours on the internet… and it was clear that beyond [...]

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Why Raising Wages Won’t Work as a Long Term Solution For Foxconn. Or Apple

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:06 9 Comments

A few weeks back I was asked to speak at the BMW Europe Asian Young Leaders Forum on “How do cities organize communal life and maintain social harmony? What can business contribute to these processes?”  It was the week after EXPO, and everyone was in Harmonious society mode, but in developing what I thought were [...]

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You Cannot Build a Brand on a Foundation of an Abusive Supply Chain

Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:09 24 Comments

For long time readers of All Roads, you will know that one of the topics i have follows has been related to the systemic issues apple has faced within its supply chain. it is a topic that in the last few days has come to a head with the near daily suicides occurring on Foxconn’s [...]

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Labor Conditions of Apple’s itouch Supplier All Over CCTV. Brand Destruction in Process?

Monday, February 22, 2010 2:18 16 Comments

Over the last couple of years, one of the firms that has popped up on the radar of firms whose labor conditions I felt were at some point going to come back to haunt them… and I think we have come a bit closer with the above CCTV report, an 11 and a half minute [...]

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Labor Compliance in China. Did Anyone Learn Anything from Nike?

Friday, February 5, 2010 19:23 14 Comments

Over the last few weeks, I have been spedning a lot of timethings about the risks of China.  More specifically the risks that either are not thought through, are thought to be too low to consider, or are believed to be removed by a third party relationship.  It is a sitution that, as the interview [...]

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