Chicago: Haymarket Books (2020); London: Pluto Press (2020); translated into Korean (Narumbooks, 2021)
Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: China (CHOICE)
BOOK AWARD—Dying for an iPhone—2022 Outstanding Academic Title
In two categories
Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: China (posted on January 25, 2023)
https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/outstanding-academic-titles-2022-china/
Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: Work and Labor (posted on June 16, 2023)
https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/outstanding-academic-titles-2022-work-and-labor/
CHOICE, a division of the American Library Association, named Dying for an iPhone, authored by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, the Outstanding Academic Title 2022 regarding China & the Outstanding Academic Title 2022 about Work and Labor.
The prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by experts in the field, and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the selection panel applies several criteria to reviewed titles:
- overall excellence in presentation and scholarship
- importance relative to other literature in the field
- distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form
- originality or uniqueness of treatment
This insiders’ story about industrial protest within the international tech sector makes for an insightful volume. Authors Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.), Selden (Cornell Univ.), and Pun (Univ. of Hong Kong) seek to assess the extent to which the Chinese state and global tech corporations have fulfilled their responsibilities to protect workers in the context of transnational production. The book comprises 12 chapters. Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is the focus of chapters 1–4. The coverage of chapters 5–8 ranges over student interns, human costs of technology empire-building, unsettled lives, love, and desire for consumption. The current environmental crisis, work-related injuries, industrial protests, and labor rights are treated in chapters 9–12. The authors believe that “when workers, with support at home and abroad, unite to reclaim their dignity and right to fair labor,” there is a chance of improvement. The case of Foxconn, including both its present international profile (plants in 29 countries and territories) and its proposed extensions into the US, Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world, “could inspire a new round of global labor struggles.”
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Dying for an iPhone 