Dr Jenny Chan, Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice-President of the Research Committee on Labour Movements of the International Sociological Association, presents her paper entitled “Labor, Logistics and Technology: Informal Employment in China’s Parcel-Delivery Sector” on the session, “Gender and Migration under Digital Turn”, Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Digital Turn.
- Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Digital Turn—Gender and Migration under Digital Turn
- Date: 24 May 2023
- Host: Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University (BNU-HKBU) United International College
- Venue: Zhuhai City, China (online and face-to-face presentation format)
- Acknowledgement: This research was supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (P0041395; P0042704).
Jenny Chan is an associate professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an elected vice president (2018–2023) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements. She researches labor and state–society relations in China’s global tech transformation. She is the co-author, with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, of Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers (2020), which has been translated into Korean (2021) and awarded CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Title regarding China (2022). Her articles have appeared in NTWE (New Technology, Work and Employment), Human Relations, Critical Sociology, Sociologias, The China Review, Modern China, Global Labour Journal, The Asia-Pacific Journal, and The South Atlantic Quarterly, among others.
Dying for an iPhone 