Foxconn Readme to the Kingdom of life: as robots do not want to think

7:30 A.M., Taiyuan South Westmobile dvr of the village of emission from a deluge of young workers. They wear the same style of equipment, most listless while chewing a hot egg filling cake, steamed stuffed bun buns while walking along the road outside the village slowly. This dust is diffused on the cement road, on both sides of the tree is covered with dust year round, women's pink frock is unique to bright colors.

After 15 minutes, they went to a huge complex--has nearly 80,000 employees of Foxconn's Taiyuan Industrial Park Gate. In the quiet after employees and quickly through the narrow channel, who is hidden behind a low white building within the Park.

In the next ten hours, they were like robots, like silent repetition of minor work.

Security "teach a lesson"

If there are no major disturbances that occurred in late September, as Foxconn's layout is one of the many parks in mainland China, Taiyuan industrial park is not a matter of concern.

The night of September 23, thousands of workers at Foxconn and park security guards there were fierce clashes continued for hours. In this conflict, which led to 40 male employees were injured in the industrial park appear the workshop closed, supermarkets were hit, plant damage. End only after a large number of police intervention to quell.

Two weeks later, in addition to one or two police officers stationed near the Park, and saw no signs of unrest here.

Welcoming the work group is another group just after the night shift workers, tired after a night, these people want to do most of the things lying on a comfortable bed to car dvr sleep.

Chen Xingguo walking in the 20 years of flagging support in the work force. The tall stature youth retention modelling exaggerated hairstyles – forehead, dyed yellow hair is almost completely before covering his right eye. His hands into a pair of jeans pocket, dangling a cigarette in his mouth, on his face after working for a long time reluctant to say a word more languorous look.

In the night before, he sat next to the Assembly line, with hundreds of workers doing the same thing: picked up on a conveyor belt through mobile aluminium casing, check under the surface with no residue when you die-cast metal particles, and if so, they used a tool to scrape off the shape of carving knives. Completing this process will only take a few seconds.

"We do such a thing all day. "Deadpan Xingguo Chen said. The young worker from Shanxi Jincheng rural, after graduating from junior high school have local relatives to open small restaurants called hybrid, also had worked as a waiter in a small Internet Cafe in Beijing. Last summer, he and a friend were recruited into the Foxconn. Friends told him that this is the world's top 500 enterprises, income stability, and pay on time. Since then, Chen Xingguo becomes his fellow Shanxi Jincheng-the ancestral home, but in Taiwan and build up a family fortune of birth Terry large manufacturing Empire on a tiny screws.

Although in the past the time left him with a dark complexion of the country, but urban life has allowed Chen Xing changes--in addition to the hair, his left ear wearing a five-pointed star-shaped metal earrings, black Samsung cell phone in his hand always plays pop music.

More than millions of workers at Foxconn, XING Guo Chan is one of the largest number of grass-roots workers. The groups are almost all about 20 years old from the rural, most only finished junior high school, school to work. At Foxconn, relying on simple but repetitive work on a daily basis, they can earn income to about 2,500 yuan per month.

Compared with they have called parents, much higher levels of income. More than 10 years ago, Xingguo Chen's father had fought in the electronics factory in Dongguan, hundreds of dollars more than the poor every month.

Now, they also embarked on a father had walked across the road to town to work. Time does not seem to change the fate of two generations – they are all sitting in front of the line and faced never end part. Different is that production in that year of the father is television, nation is a mobile phone produced by Chan.

Chen Xingguo of aluminum shell after a hands after a series of processes such as grinding, polishing, painting, eventually along with other parts, were assembled by workers--now the most dazzling product that Apple just released has a thinner body and a long screen of iPhone 5. But this new, stylish products, Chen Xingguo, too expensive. Currently, the iPhone 5 in the black market in China cost up to 7,000 yuan.

As Terry branch of a large manufacturing Empire, Foxconn's Taiyuan industrial park on a map of the Empire is not worth noticing. In the past decade, due to the rapid expansion and rising costs and other reasons, Foxconn's tentacles extend from Shenzhen to many provinces in the Mainland of China. Dozens of billions of dollars of investment, keen on attracting local government all the streets, land, plant, taxation, fiscal subsidy provided support and many other aspects. In this flood of Foxconn's move in a new generation of workers are increasingly making their voices loud.

"Previous-generation think city work just to earn money to support the wife and kids, doesn't matter. "Sun Yat-sen University said Wang Xingzhou, Associate Professor of sociology and social work, they" concept with its own lower than city people ", who are accustomed to adversity.

While Millennials, generation the new generation who has no patience and sacrifice. And compared to the parents, they don't want to endure past the boring lives of the factory after work and strict management system. 2005 engaged in intergenerational differences of peasant Wang Xingzhou said a new generation of higher educated, and through television, the Internet and other media, to know more about the outside world, the pursuit of equality awareness, "their pursuit of self-worth is more".

Accompanied by the awakening of the new generation of workers, Foxconn, which also comes the challenge of giant manufacturing machines.

In 2010, Foxconn's Shenzhen employees committed suicide by jumping off of a series of outsiders to astonish. That not only made the Foxconn was its most important clients – Apple's independent investigation, and was once share prices also slumped crisis. Media reported criticism of the public image of Foxconn's freefall.

As a response, Foxconn workers following the incident raised from 900 Yuan a month to 1200 Yuan, also launched a "cherish life, care for family" employee signature activity, but we do have employees call "not a suicide pact".

In March this year, commissioned by Apple on Foxconn's labor environment survey United States non-profit Fair Labor Association reports that Foxconn long overtime hours, "deduction" of a series of violations of labour rights such as overtime pay. Since then, the "sweatshop" titles like Foxconn brand, and again the newspapers.

Riot on September 23, was hit again by Foxconn has been disgraceful image.

A night shift worker surnamed Luo said, workers have security of insolence "teach a lesson".

For the purpose of production safety and the protection of trade secrets, Foxconn's Taiyuan industrial park, security has always been pursuing harsh management posture against the workers. Workers found the failure to wear a frock, irregularities on the driveway to walk, even in the Park using a mobile phone to take pictures, scolded and even intimidation that might result in security. After many years of bear patiently, the workers broke out.

"Always take advantage of the influence of others bullied us for security. "The worker surnamed Luo said with frustration. Drunk run-ins for security event is the cause of several workers, one of whom was beaten by more dragged into vans for security. This type of event has occurred more than once.

Large numbers of enraged workers then fierce clashes broke out and security, they roared for chasing the security around, all over the Park's car, smashed the glass in the supermarket, tear down the fence.

Foxconn's industrial park for 80,000 people and a seemingly trivial spats, like the butterfly effect, eventually evolved into Foxconn's unprecedented huge riots.

Chen Xingguo themselves did not participate in the events of that night with some regret. Workers who he said Foxconn permissive security acts of rudeness, this kind of event could happen again at any time.

When you walked into the West of the village, Chen Xingguo off the cigarette butts, a dirty little restaurant after eating vehicle dvr a bowl of planed, it went straight back to his rented a small house.