Inside the Chinese factory where Apple’s iPads are made

In 2010, a string of deaths at Foxconn’s manufacturing hub in southern China focused attention on working conditions inside the factories where Apple’s iPads and other high-tech gadgets are made.

This March, Apple Inc. said it had agreed to work with the Taiwanese firm Foxconn to tackle wage and working condition violations at the plants in question.

Now, a rare video taken inside a Foxconn plant in southern China shows what it’s like making iPads. American Public Media’s Rob Schmitz, the second reporter Apple has ever allowed inside its Chinese factories, gives us a tour. The work is tedious and boring, Schmitz says, but every day, hundreds of migrant workers line up outside the factory for a chance to do it.