S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?

Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed! 

This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties? 

We spin out into history of Chinese labour policy and emerging fin-tech in Africa, and the incredibly hard to pronounce ‘algorithmic colonialism’. The girls struggle to get their head around these massive supply chains that produce the little computers we’re all so addicted to. Tech girlies we need your advice, how do we bring down silicone valley? Or at least make them less evil??

References:

• Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan

• Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)

• Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly

• Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post

• USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

• Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera

• Abeba Birhane ( Algorithmic Colonization of Africa by Abeba Birhane

• Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Therese Png & William Isaac (2020) Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

• Kai-Fu Lee (2017) The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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