Mike Daisey made up things. Big time. He invented things. His report was half fabrication, half stretching the truth. The New York Times, for all their credibility, did really go out of their way to paint a dramatic picture. Such is what happens when you want awards, and not the truth.
In any case, all this did spur Apple to crack down hard on Foxconn, but the infractions they've found so far are pretty minor. A handful of under-aged workers that submitted fraudulent paperwork. Some industrial accidents that, while unfortunate, do happen at a plant with 800,000 workers.
The deeper down in the supply chain, the more problems you'll find, but at least some are doing the right thing.
While working at Foxconn isn't as nice as working at, say, an American automotive plant, it's actually not a bad career for someone who's in their twenties, with no academic accreditation and looking to make a living.
If I had a choice between working in a toilet factory, a forge, or a Foxconn factory, I would go with Foxconn every single time.
All your rage seems misdirected. What about the people who built the American Embassy in Iraq and had to live in containers in the middle of the desert, who had their passports taken away, and who might never have been paid at all once "living expenses" were deducted from their pay?
Ah, but there's no "Apple" in the headline there, so it won't get any traction.