A worker polishes a component by hand at Foxconn's Longhua factory in Shenzhen on March 6, 2014.[Cai Muyuan / chinadaily.com.cn]

Workers in Foxconn work normally eight to ten hours a day, six days a week, with half an hour of lunch break in between. Neither the components, nor the dull and repeated noise of the machines, suggest the smart and fancy Apple products that the world is crazy about.

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