Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/30/apple-chinese-workers-treated-inhumanely

In a related story, Apple has hired Kathy Lee Gifford as a new PR rep to handle this....

Seriously, this is nothing new (which I know you know). A while back there was a story about men's custom-built hair pieces built over in the Far East, with reports of brutal working condtions. I'm sure you can look at many household-name devices and appliances and trace them back to these situations.

And here's the problem..however unfair, unless every (and I mean every) major company agrees to take a serious examination, odds are that not much will be done about it.