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Shi Zengqiang, on the right, the father of a 15-year-old worker at Chinese manufacturing company Pegatron worker who died of pneumonia, holds a banner at a news conference in Beijing on December 16, 2013.

Chinese workers pay a toxic price for their jobs making Apple’s iPhones and iPads

September 16, 2014Business

Thousands of Chinese workers, many of them teenagers, become seriously ill from chemicals used in factories producing Apple products. A new documentary called “Who Pays The Price?” is following the lives, and deaths, of some workers and may have already led to changes in the Apple’s foreign practices.

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