Students in China are reportedly being forced to assemble Sony’s forthcoming Playstation 4 or risk failing their course.
IT engineering students at China’s Xi’an Institute of Technology claim they were made to glue parts of the console together in factory conditions in order to earn course credits.
Chinese media say students were given unpaid ‘internships’ at the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn, but were given manual work instead of tasks directly related to their studies.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at
via Chinese students ‘must work in PlayStation 4 sweatshop or they’ll fail course’ | Mail Online.
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it?
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