Migrant Workers

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Migrant Workers

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Foxconn at Zhengzhou: the iPhone ramp and the limits of closed-loop production

Zhengzhou's ‘iPhone City’ joined Apple's product calendar, Foxconn's manufacturing system, local-government infrastructure, labor agencies, and a vast migrant workforce. During the 2022 iPhone 14 Pro ramp, workers' flight and protest showed how readily production volatility moved into pay, housing, health, and freedom of movement—and how weakly workers' reports changed the ramp until departures and protest disrupted production.

How did a product launch schedule travel through Apple, Foxconn, local government, labor brokers, dormitories, and migrant workers—and where, if anywhere, could workers use their knowledge to change it?

Foxconn Electronics Contract Manufacturing Supply Chains Migrant Workers

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Singapore

Between 1961 and 1972, a coalition around the People's Action Party, statutory boards, the NTUC, employers, and senior administrators joined export manufacturing, public land and housing, and wage coordination. Its capacity rested on both material delivery and the defeat of rival political and labor coalitions; the 2020 migrant-worker dormitory outbreak exposed the unequal membership boundary that the settlement left behind.

How did one coalition turn industrialization, housing, and labor peace into governing capacity, and what became difficult to see once that coalition also defined credible opposition?

Singapore State Capacity Industrial Policy Labor Relations Public Housing