{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daybreak","title":"Why replicating China's iPhone city model in India is a short-term fix for a long-term problem","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1511,"description":"What put iPhone city on the map is that it produces more than half of the world’s iPhone’s every single year. The global demand for the Apple iPhone has only increased over the years. To keep up with that demand Foxconn hires up to 200,000 workers – a mix of migrants and college students – to make sure that the assembly lines keep running. Especially during the peak season which happens to begin right around now, from September to February. \n\nIphone city is the perfect example of the China manufacturing playbook. It is what propelled China to emerge as the world’s manufacturing hub. It’s pretty simple – Foxconn and companies like it build these large facilities, pack millions of migrant laborers into dorms near their facilities, and get them to work long hours, in often tough conditions. \n\nBut now things are changing. More and more global companies are adopting a China-plus-one strategy. And India is becoming a favoured alternative. \n\nAnd  as the focus shifts our way, manufacturers in India are pretty much replicating the same China labour model. But this model has an indigenous problem.\nTune in\nDAYBREAK UNWIND RECOMMENDATIONS for \"best opening lines in a book or a film.\"\nNicholas: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez\nStory he refers to: The Most Memorable Annual Pig Parade of Kharagpur\nRahel: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak \nPrithu: The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams\nAvinash: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen\nRuhi: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K Rowling\nBrady: Rounders (film, 1998)\nSayan: The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R Tolkien\nSameer: Gangs of Wasseypur (film, 2012)\nSumit: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut\nRohin: The Body by Stephen King\nSnigdha: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson\nDaybreak is now on WhatsApp at +918971108379. For next Thursday's Unwind, send us your recommendations to us as texts or voice notes. The theme is \"favourite murder mystery.\"","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uPitovxKRYBGX6AWg9UrET6s3nAdkS-Ci9uZvsZj7vk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ODhl/ZWM4NmEwZTcxZjZk/MDRlYjAzNTNkMjJi/ZGQ2YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}