Apple just released its annual audit of conditions within its sprawling supply chain. It's the company's ninth self-critique and provides a bruising look inside the lives of those building iPhones overseas who allow Apple to collect record profits in California.
While Apple has gone to great lengths to improve its operations, many problems persist. Each year, as the chart below shows, children continue to be found working in factories; pregnant women are unfairly screened and discriminated against; and workers are getting duped into paying excessive fees to job recruiters in exchange for work at an Apple supplier, a practice known as debt-bonded servitude.
