The five schoolboys weren’t of legal age to work on an assembly line. But when their vocational school sent them to a Foxconn manufacturing plant last month as part of an internship program, they were soon piecing together Sony PlayStations 12 hours a day.
One boy said he worked an overnight shift that started at 7:30 p.m. looking for imperfections on finished gaming consoles. Another struggled to stand after spending hours screwing together thousands of devices. The intern assigned to lug plastic cases for the product bore red welts on his neck from hoisting heavy loads onto his thin shoulders.
The baby-faced laborers were all 15 years old — a year younger than the legal age to perform such work in China. Speaking to a Los Angeles Times reporter, all five said that a day before their three-month internships began, company employees visited their school requesting copies of everyone’s identification cards.
“They knew how old I was, but they didn’t say anything,” said one of the teens, who is in his second year at the Yantai Engineering & Technology College, a vocational school in this industrial seaside city in eastern Shandong province. The Times is not disclosing his or his schoolmates’ names because the youngsters fear repercussions.
Their internship ended abruptly this month after Chinese state radio reported that interns as young as 14 were working at the plant. In a statement issued Oct. 15, Foxconn admitted using an undisclosed number of underage interns; it pledged to prevent it from happening again…
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-child-labor-20121030,0,6508766.story
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