Apple is wrestling with a public-relations crisis caused by the loss of a next-generation iPhone prototype and the death of a 25-year-old employee of Foxconn, Chinese manufacturer of Apple iPhones and iPods. In 2006, Apple audited Foxconn’s working conditions after a British newspaper suggested that the factory violated labor practices, and found that the manufacturer asked excessive hours of its workers.
– Apple
previously investigated Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer of its iPhones and
iPods, three years before the July 16 death of a 25-year-old Foxconn employee raised
questions about Foxconn management.
Sun Danyong, an engineer with Foxconn, had been put in charge of shipping 16
prototypes of…