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IT’S certainly one way to deal with bad publicity. Foxconn, the manufacturer of parts for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, after a spate of suicides by its workers. Now it plans to replace much of its troublesome human workforce with a million robots.
Foxconn is based in Taiwan but is the largest private-sector employer in mainland China, with more than a million employees. Last year 17 killed themselves, most by jumping from factory buildings. The ensuing and negative headlines worldwide pressured the company…
