There is a 2011 report on Apple Supplier Responsibility located at Apple:
<a href="http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibi...ress_Report.pdf" target="_blank">
http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibi...ress_Report.pdf</a>
I think that there is a lot of interest in the social cost of the computer hardware that we're using and it's probably worth a read (25 pages).
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We dedicated additional resources to protecting the rights of workers
who move from their home country to work in factories in another country.
Many of these immigrants are charged exorbitant fees that drive them into
debt, an industrywide problem that Apple discovered in 2008 and that
we classify as involuntary labor. In 2010, we continued our search for these
violations, auditing all of our production suppliers in Taiwan and many in
Malaysia and Singapore. As a result of Apple’s audits and rigorous standards,
foreign workers have been reimbursed $3.4 million in recruitment fee
overcharges since 2008. We also trained suppliers on how to improve
their recruiting practices, as well as on their legal and ethical obligations
to foreign workers.
