Apple and Foxconn have both been on the hot seat over reports of the supplier's poor factory conditions. Working at a Foxconn factory in southwestern China, an 18-year-old student named Miss Chen (her name has been changed to protect her identity) told CNN about the conditions she faces each day.
Thought of primarily as an Apple supplier, Foxconn also builds products for Dell, HP, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech companies. In 2010 a rash of worker suicides at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, triggered concerns between Apple and other tech companies. Last month a group of Foxconn workers threatened mass suicide over a pay dispute, an issue that was eventually settled.
Both Foxconn and Apple have conveyed similar messages of taking the situation seriously.
When asked by CNN why humans are doing machine-like work at Foxconn, she said simply "humans are cheaper.
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