Jenny CHAN, Mark SELDEN, and Ngai PUN Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers Chicago: Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1642591248 The book ‘Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers’ written by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai is a sweeping account of the inhumane workingContinue reading “Book Review: Dying For an iPhone, by Swetha Ratnasabhapathi, Chennai Centre for China Studies on Sep 20, 2022”
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Dying for an iPhone – Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: China & Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: Work and Labor (CHOICE)
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 ofContinue reading “Dying for an iPhone – Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: China & Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: Work and Labor (CHOICE)”
A Questão Chinesa [The China Question]. São Paulo, Brazil: Contrabando Editorial.
© 2022. Portuguese edition. Luta de classes na China Atual (Class Struggle in China Today) ISBN #978-65-997188-1-6 Authors (in alphabetical order): AU Loong-yu, Jenny CHAN, Sophia CHAN, JN CHIEN, Yige DONG, Eli FRIEDMAN, Irene Maestro GUIMARÃES, Ching Kwan LEE, Leo Vinicius LIBERATO, PUN Ngai, Ashley SMITH, Richard SMITH, Ellie TSE, ZHUANG Liehong Contrabando Editorial Rua Itapeva,Continue reading “A Questão Chinesa [The China Question]. São Paulo, Brazil: Contrabando Editorial.”
Foxconn in India (13 Apr 2023)
Foxconn in India: Neighbour’s Pride, No One’s Envy! The Economic Times Podcast: The Morning Brief (13 Apr 2023) 35 min 31 sec Foxconn has mega plans for India. It is aided by Apple’s China Plus plans, in which India plans a big role. Dia Rekhi (The ET Podcast) talks to: Dr Jenny Chan, Associate ProfessorContinue reading “Foxconn in India (13 Apr 2023)”
Jenny Chan. 2023. Review of Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class( by Dorothy J. Solinger). The China Journal 89(January):212-15.
The ChinaJournal 89 (January): 212-15. Jenny Chan. 2023. Review of Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class, by Dorothy J. Solinger (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). The China Journal 89 (January), 212-215. DOI: 10.1086/722866 Link to full contant: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722866
Late to Class Podcast w/ Hank Sanders, and Jenny Chan (13 September 2022)
Episode 17: Foxconn (Jenny Chan, coauthor of Dying for an iPhone) As Apple prepares to release the latest edition of the iPhone 14, LTC asks a burning question: what goes into the manufacturing of an Apple product? Professor Jenny Chan spent several years going behind the scenes at one of the main factories where iPhones andContinue reading “Late to Class Podcast w/ Hank Sanders, and Jenny Chan (13 September 2022)”
New Book Review by Lishu Tang.
Review of Dr. Eric FLORENCE from China Perspectives (2022)
‘Dying for an iPhone is an important addition to a substantive body of scholarship on the politics of labour in post-socialist China…. It will be of great interest both for teaching purposes and for scholars, journalists, and social activists interested in global labour.” —Eric Florence, China Perspectives 2022/2 (June), pp. 79-80 Full Text in : https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.13877
Asian Platform Labour Conference 2022
Asian Platform Labour Conference 2022 Date: 18-19 Aug 2022 Conference website (https://asianplatform2022.org/) Department of Social Development, National Pingtung University, Taiwan Fairwork Foundation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Digital Organisation and Society Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London Keynote Speaker: Jack Qiu, National University of Singapore Speakers and Participants (to be updated): Tat Chor Au-Yueng, LingnanContinue reading “Asian Platform Labour Conference 2022”
Reviewers: Anathasia Citra and Grace Amin , Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W Review of Books)
‘Dying for an iPhone’ This book is relevant and timeless and also will be an excellent journey for academics, students, and practitioners to dive deeper into the world of industrial psychology and crisis communication management of a company. Reviewers: Anathasia Citra and Grace Amin Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W Review of Books) Spring 2022,Continue reading “Reviewers: Anathasia Citra and Grace Amin , Ethnic and Third World Literatures (E3W Review of Books)”
Dying for an iPhone 