Chinese students from technical schools and colleges are being used as cheap labor inside a Foxconn factory that builds Amazon Alexa devices, according to documents obtained by China Labor Watch (CLW) and shared with The Guardian.

Roughly 1,500 students hired as "interns" work six days a week for 10 hours a day (which includes two hours of mandatory overtime). Positions are paid, but students only make roughly $1.42 an hour, or $248 a month. Though all interns were of legal working age (16), they were not supposed to work overtime or take on night shifts.

Students faced intense pressure to work and were antagonized by teachers who were paid by the factory to supervise their output. If interns refused to work night shifts, they were bullied by teachers, the report says. One student was told her refusal to work would affect her scholarship applications, some were fired, and others were subjected to violence.

"Teachers often physically and verbally attack interns, and on July 30, many workers witnessed a teacher hitting an intern. The teacher aggressively grabbed the intern by the ear, did not let him swipe out of work and scolded him," according to the CLW report.

Foxconn says it's taking steps to rectify the infractions. "We have doubled the oversight and monitoring of the internship program with each relevant partner school to ensure that, under no circumstances, will interns [be] allowed to work overtime or nights," the company told The Guardian.

Amazon also acknowledged the violation with a spokesperson saying, "we are urgently investigating these allegations and addressing this with Foxconn at the most senior level. Additional teams of specialists arrived on-site yesterday to investigate, and we've initiated weekly audits of this issue."

Foxconn, of course, is no stranger to accusations of human rights violations. It's also been accused of using illegal student labor to build iPhones, among other gadgets.

In the US, meanwhile, Amazon has been criticized for intense working conditions and unfair labor practices in its warehouses and factories. In October 2018, it agreed to pay all US workers at least $15 per hour, but problems persist here and abroad, as evidenced by last month's Prime Day warehouse worker walkout.

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