Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, one of the world’s most vilified workers-rights violators, confirmed reports that it is manufacturing Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 on the backs of university interns. Chinese media broke the story, asserting that thousands of students from an engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology — the program is officially considered an internship — are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant, which is manufacturing the new consoles.
Foxconn in Trouble Again Over PS4
Posted by: David Vranicar October 10, 2013 12:53 PMTaiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, one of the world’s most vilified workers-rights violators, confirmed reports that it is manufacturing Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 on the backs of university interns. Chinese media broke the story, asserting that thousands of students from an engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology — the program is officially considered an internship — are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant, which is manufacturing the new consoles.