Is there a company making smart phones that does not abuse foreign workers?

[MoonRiver]

And I mean directly or indirectly. Seriously, we all need these phones. I do NOT want to support any company that promotes abusive labor situations. But, I'm not sure there are any options out there. SAD.

[Indianademocrat91]

1. Nope!

You will never find a phone that hasn't been touched by the hands of hundreds of sweatshop workers / 5 year old Congonese boys in the mine fields with guns to their heads.

[MoonRiver]

2. That's what I thought.

Very depressing.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Sadly, all roads lead back to Foxconn...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Suicides

[undeterred]

4. Why do we all need "smart phones"?

Did I miss a memo? I just have a phone.

[MoonRiver]

6. Ok, we don't ALL need them.

But, the same companies that make smart phones, make regular cell phones.

[virgogal]

10. And the ones that don't make phones make our clothes,household goods,cosmetics,and

about everything else.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

7. But do you own a PC?

It almost certainly contains mostly Chinese made components.

Do you use, for instance, Microsoft Windows, a company which uses Foxconn & similar?

Consider that Foxconn makes 40% of the world's consumer electronic components. Consider that the rest are made largely in economically deprived countries under working conditions we would consider unfair.

The problem - inherent to modern day capitalism - isn't going to go away by boycotting phones or blaming one company.

[MoonRiver]

9. I totally understand what you're saying.

And that's what I thought. Until we get humane, not globalistic governments, this is what we deal with, along with destruction of our environment and endangered species.

[FredisDead]

8. I have never heard of

a Foxconn worker protesting any other company but Apple. It seems that Apple Is the only company that allows Foxconn to abuse It's workers.

Foxconn Protest Workers
http://imgur.com/a/gIMQc