Apple sweat-shop claims disputed

Claims that Apple is running Nike-like sweat shops to make its iPods, have been disputed by people who claim to be in the know.

Reports say that Apple’s contractors in China, Foxconn made the super soar-away iPods in a city of 200,000 workers in the Longhua plant that were paid a miserable $50 a month. The story claimed that people live in plant dormitories housing 100 people, and outside visitors are forbidden. One plant is staffed by women and another is secured by Chinese coppers.

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