Who Pays the Price?, the Human Cost of Cheap Electronics

Heather S. White, the award-winning, non-profit executive and researcher with 25 years of experience in international advocacy on labor and human rights issues released on You Tube and Facebook scenes from her unfinished film depicting the terrible human toll on young Chinese workers in the production of iPhones, mobilizing activists to pressure Apple. Becoming a movement, it took on a life of its own, ultimately championed by such activist organizations as China Labor Watch and Green America.

White's Who Pays the Price?, the Human Cost of Cheap Electronics profiles injured and chemically poisoned young Chinese workers in factories that manufacture the world's leading electronics brands. Several of her subjects have been discarded by their factories after being diagnosed with leukemia. Others suffered debilitating accidents from faulty machinery. Many return to their villages where they become incurably ill with no healthcare coverage--left to suffer, decline and struggle to survive.

The film offers an opportunity to meet the workers who are paying the price for cheap electronics. The remarkably authentic film is both touching and brutally honest. So real, that Silicon Valley companies have consistently declined interview requests. White has spent nearly two years researching and filming 100+ hours in China for Who Pays the Price?

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