Market-based human rights: corporate responsibility in patriarchy

In a South Indian factory owned by Apple supplier Foxconn, mostly young women assemble iPhones under intense production pressure. They themselves are not allowed to use mobile phones while working. Their conditions are precarious: Up to ten women share sparse accommodations, some of them sleeping on the floor. Foxconn deducts money from their already meager wages for this accommodation and the long commute to the factory. At the end of the month…