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“Surprisingly entertaining! Humor, drama and…suspense.” – International Documentary “An in-depth analysis of the complexity of globalization and its famous practice of outsourcing. With his seemingly dispassionate approach, Thomas Balmès provides a pitiless document on a furiously modern world.” – Télérama (Paris) “Funny, perceptive! A moral investigation into the profit motive.” – BBC “Fascinating!” – The Financial Times (UK) “Fun!” – The Daily Telegraph (UK)

Is the Nokia Corporation worried about the working conditions of thousands of young Chinese women employed by their suppliers to manufacture all those little bitty parts that go into your cell phone?  Or is Nokia more concerned that you might hold them to account if you knew that their workers earn less than the Chinese minimum wage? That’s for you to decide after watching this eye-opening investigation in which the cultural divide (Chinese workers, British managers, Finnish executives) and the even more dramatic gender divide (women workers and investigators, male managers and executives) go a long way toward explaining why the investigators’ recommendation that open buckets of toxic chemicals not be stored where the workers take their tea is met with this response: “Ok, take them into the kitchen!”

FESTIVALS:

• 2005 Hot Docs Film Festival
• 2005 One World International Film Festival
• 2005 DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival
• 2004 Amsterdam International Documentary Festival
• 2004 Amnesty International Film Festival

LINKS:

• View video clip (Windows Media File) If clicking link does not work, right-click (or option-click) link to save the 'wmv' file to a local drive & open in Windows Media Player locally)
• Nokia Corporate website
• Scandinavia House
• Newssource for companies outsourcing
• Behind the Label website
• Information on Nokia's human rights record
• The Outsourcing Times blog