In a new, comprehensive article that highlights some interesting details pertaining to the popular Apple iPad tablet, The New York Times’ Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher have shed light on Apple’s practice of overseas production of components of its devices, particularly at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.

The article, which comprises an in-depth analysis of the factors that govern the decision of tech giants like Apple of flocking to overseas labor, is largely based on several interviews with a number of people, including “more than three dozen current and former Apple employees and contractors.” Most of these sources forwarded some pertinent information on the condition of anonymity in order to protect their jobs.

According to the report, when one thinks of ‘Apple’, one automatically ends up thinking about ‘Foxconn’ too, as both the companies boast association on the business as well as culture front. While Foxconn’s entanglement with Apple results from its contract for assembling the iPhones and the iPads; Apple’s links to Foxconn are a consequence of the disquieting questions about the deplorable working conditions for the more than one million Foxconn employees.

With Foxconn’s name surfacing in news only when its workers either threaten or commit suicide, or when it reports about expansion in its production capabilities in order to process more Apple devices, one of Mike Daisey’s episodes on the national radio show ‘This American Life’ has called for the need for Apple to increase its reporting and supervision of the working conditions in factories like Foxconn.