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. Jenny Chan is an associate professor ofContinue reading ““Interdisciplinary Forum on Social Sciences and Digital Turn”, BNU-HKBU United International College, The People’s Republic of China”
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International Labor Day 2022, Online public event: 2 May 2022 Monday
-이야기 손님 : 제니 챈, 반올림 활동가 -일시 : 2022년 5월 2일(월) 오후 7시 (한국 시각) -장소 : 줌 온라인(신청자에게 링크 발송) -참가 신청 https://bit.ly/dying_for_an_iphone -문의 : 010-4165-6235 -Speaker : Jenny Chan and a SHARPS activist -Date & time : Monday, May 02, 2022 at 7:00 PM (Korea Standard Time) -Venue : Zoom Online (applicants will be sent a link) -Registration https://bit.ly/dying_for_an_iphone -Contact Us : +82)10-4165-6235, sharps@hanmail.net —————————————————– 반도체노동자의 건강과 인권지킴이 ‘반올림’전화: 02-3496-5067Continue reading “International Labor Day 2022, Online public event: 2 May 2022 Monday”
Book talk by Professor Dorothy J. Solinger (University of California, Irvine), July 2022
Poverty and Pacification The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class By Professor DOROTHY J. SOLINGER Book Content: This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China’s single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found thatContinue reading “Book talk by Professor Dorothy J. Solinger (University of California, Irvine), July 2022”
Book talk of Dying for an iPhone in Korean
Dying for an iPhone accuses the working condition of the ‘Electronic Empire’ Foxconn factory that produces Apple products. There is a suicide incident of workers in a huge factory where around 1 million people work and the authors of the book are experiencing brutal working conditions by entering the factory. The translator of the book, regularContinue reading “Book talk of Dying for an iPhone in Korean”
Rural China’s youth struggling in Foxconn iPhone factories, govt slow to act, says sociologist
Chinese workers struggling to assemble iPhones as consumers queue up to buy newest models, says Jenny Chan of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at Institute of Chinese Studies webinar. PIA KRISHNANKUTTY 10 February, 2022 links to the Full Website: . https://theprint.in/world/rural-chinas-youth-struggling-in-foxconn-iphone-factories-govt-slow-to-act-says-sociologist/826881/
Choice: Dying for an iPhone was included in a feature highlighting the top 75 community college titles, January 2022 (Social & Behavioral Sciences).
The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the January 2022 issue of Choice. Weblink: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-january-2022/
Book Talk. “Dying for an iPhone.” Presented by Dr. Jenny Chan. Moderated by Dr. Anand P.Krishnan.
zoom: https://icsin.org/newsletter/show/wednesday-seminar-book-discussion-dying-for-an-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-the-lives-of-chinas-workers-9th-february-300-pm-ist-zoom-webinar The meeting room will be open from 2:30 PM IST onwards, with the webinar formally starting at 3:00 PM IST (that is, Hong Kong at 5:30PM).
Book Review by Hui XU, New Technology, Work and Employment
‘In contrast to treating migrant workers as factorial resources, the three authors with sociological and historical backgrounds provide a bottom‐up perspective, focusing on the economic, social and political exploitation of migrant workers.… Dying for an iPhone coagulates the efforts of labour activists and scholars under an increasing authoritarian state over the past decade, which is truly inspiring.Continue reading “Book Review by Hui XU, New Technology, Work and Employment”
Charlie Smith (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone
Book Review: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers Charlie Smith, University of Leicester, UK Work, Employment and Society First Published 23 Jul 2021.https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211024461
Dr ZHOU Yang (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone
Dr ZHOU Yang, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong Global Media and Communication First Published August 7, 2021 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17427665211017358?journalCode=gmca “Overall, with its historical and theoretical in-depth, global and comprehensive in scope, Dying for an iPhone represents a landmark contribution to debates about Chinese labour politics. It also adds new threads to critical communication scholarship as itContinue reading “Dr ZHOU Yang (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”
Dying for an iPhone 