Adam Minter, Columnist

More Chinese Kids Making IPhones?

Did yet another Apple Inc. contractor really just get caught using underage labor in one of its Chinese factories?

July 31, 2013 at 6:09 PM UTC

Adam Minter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the business of sports. He is the author, most recently, of “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale."

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Did yet another Apple Inc. contractor really just get caught using underage labor in one of its Chinese factories?

According to China Labor Watch, a nongovernmental organization based in New York, the answer is an unambiguous "yes." On July 29, the organization issued a report accusing Pegatron, a major Apple contractor in China, of employing more than 10,000 underage workers from 16 to 20 years of age, and requiring them to "work in crowded production rooms, doing the same work as formal, adult workers," among other allegations.