> Working extremely hard to make very little, when one does not care for the work and has little practical alternative is being exploited.
Subsistence farming matches this pattern. You have to work very hard, you make very little, and you don't like the work. It doesn't make much sense to label that exploitation since no one is there to exploit you (are you exploiting yourself?). But let's roll with it.
At least with Foxconn in the picture, these folks have one alternative. Put another way, Foxconn is at least less exploitative by your definition than what is likely the main alternative for many of its workers. But I suspect that your definition is not exactly the same as what you believe exploitation really is.
Subsistence farming matches this pattern. You have to work very hard, you make very little, and you don't like the work. It doesn't make much sense to label that exploitation since no one is there to exploit you (are you exploiting yourself?). But let's roll with it.
At least with Foxconn in the picture, these folks have one alternative. Put another way, Foxconn is at least less exploitative by your definition than what is likely the main alternative for many of its workers. But I suspect that your definition is not exactly the same as what you believe exploitation really is.