Apple iPhone Global Products

INPUTS Raw materials
1. Example: Coltan
  1. Holds and transmits electrical signals
  2. Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC
    1. Coltan smuggled into countries to pay for weapons
    2. Environmental impact: forests cleared, habitat of lowland gorillas
    3. Few jobs in DRC - opportunity for poor people to earn money
2. Mining controlled by armed gangs
OUTPUTS Products sold all over the world in Apple Stores and other retail outlets
PROCESSES Designed and developed in the USA
PROCESSES Foxconn Factory Shenzen, China
1. Workers aged 17-31
  1. From poor, rural villages
    1. Families often live in one room and have never seen an iPhone/iPad
  2. Want work experience and income
    1. Get paid $2 per hour
      1. Live in 8-person dorms
        Move to cities for jobs
        Help support their families
2. Make 93 million iPhones and 94 million iPads in one year
  1. Two explosions of aluminium dust killed 4 and injured 77
  2. 5 days and 325 sets of hands to assemble one iPad
  3. Suicides and suicide nets installed
  4. Tiring work
    1. 12 hour shifts with 2 one - hour meal breaks
    2. Work in silence
  5. Assembly lines assemble and package by hand in 141 steps
3. Owned by a Taiwanese Company

Resource summary

	Created by Amelia Williams about 4 years ago