Foxconn has a reputation in the tech industry for its efficiency and the contract manufacturer churns out quality gadgets for big brands like Apple, HP and Dell for very low cost, but industrial analyst has been telling me that “to do that, the company is run like a military operation.” 300,000 workers about sit on assembly lines doing the same thing all day long. A labor group said that the workers don”t really feel comfortable, talking to the people next to them, and they have very little time to themselves and to socialize in the dormitories. So their lives basically become work, sleep, work, sleep.

One of the major problems of Foxconn is because the workers feel isolated, and alienated from their work. And they don’t know their colleagues and they can find no support from their peer groups and the other workers.

Workers complain that they don”t even know the names of their roommates. Labor groups blame that feeling of isolation for the series of suicides at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory. Others point to the sheer quantity of work and Foxconn”s non-disclosure agreements that it has to safeguard products like Apple”s Ipad. Activists add that with Chinese economy growing so fast, workers also have higher expectations for themselves, and say that there is a lot of resentment.

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