Question

1. How is Apple internal spatial division of labour organized?

2. What does this tell us about the economic and political relationships between employees in different places?

Answer 1

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1- Apple is known for its innovative electronics product. It is also known for having skilled and talented employees in the company but do you know that its almost 90% manufaturing workers are from different country not US. This shows spatial division of labor in Apple.

As we know that Spatial division of labor means The spatial separation of the low and high skilled parts of a company, either on a national or international scale. In simple terms, employees and workers are organized according to functions , skills, pay in different region of country where company has operations.

Apple almost 90 percent labor is from China because its most or we can say all iphones and other products are manufactured in China by FOXCONN company.Remaing includes employees who are work at its Main campus as software developer, engineers, product managers, marketing and sales managers etc.

The spatial division of labor tell us in economical perspective that The employees who are working at its main Campus at high position like managers, supervisors etc earn thounsands or millions of dollars per annum. The workers working at China factory has average earning rate per hour. The low cost is the reason that apple does not hire US workers because China workers are cheap.

There is high political relationship between employees at high level because they fight and compete with each other to rank up their position in the company. They manipulate,influence and use references to outrun their co employee in the company. In China, There is not so political effect can be found. Workers gets good working conditions, fair pay and live thier lives in China. Apple's spatial divisin of labor is simple, organized and understandbale because Apple able to divide them based on cost, skill and position and focus on few locations.