Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, one of the world's most vilified workers-rights violators, confirmed reports that it is manufacturing Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 on the backs of university interns.
Chinese media broke the story, asserting that thousands of students from an engineering program at the Xi'an Institute of Technology -- the program is officially considered an internship -- are being forced to work at Foxconn's Yantai plant, which is manufacturing the new consoles. Should a student decline the internship, he or she would lose course credits, making it more or less impossible to graduate.
The unpaid students claimed that upon arrival at the Foxconn plant, they were given jobs that bore no relation to their studies. A finance and accounting major, for instance, was apparently assigned a job gluing together PS4 parts.
In what has been a quickly evolving story, Foxconn told Quartz that immediate action had been taken to remedy the situation.
There was a similar story last year, also involving Foxconn and the Xi'an Institute of Technology.
Foxconn is best known for worker fights, riots and suicides.
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