Author Archives: Jason Tse

Labour conflict, forms of organization and class

Call for papers Internationally coordinated themed collection sponsored by Global Labour JournalPartecipazione e ConflittoRevista Latinoamericana de Estudios del TrabajoThe Economic and Labour Relations Review Editors: Maurizio Atzeni, Centre for Labour Relations, CEIL/CONICET, ArgentinaJenny Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongDevi Sacchetto, University of Padua, Italia Internationally coordinated themed collection In this proposed collection, weContinue reading “Labour conflict, forms of organization and class”

After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics

Abstract We seek to tackle myriad problems of a global production system in which China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of consumer electronics products. Dying for an iPhone simultaneously addresses the challenges facing Chinese workers while locating them within the global economy through an assessment of the relationship between Foxconn (the largest electronics manufacturer) andContinue reading “After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics”

Manfred Elfstrom (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone

‘Factory investigations have a distinguished history stretching from Friedrich Engels’s Conditions of the Working Class in England to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, to the sweatshop exposés of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai add to this tradition withContinue reading “Manfred Elfstrom (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”

On Contact: Dying for an iPhone

On Contact: Dying for an iPhone 13 June 2021 (total run time: 28:51) Interviewer: Chris Hedges Interviewee: Dr Jeny Chan On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Professor Jenny Chan about the people in China who make iPhones, iPads and Kindles, driving the huge profits of two of the world’s most powerful companiesContinue reading “On Contact: Dying for an iPhone”

Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone

Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN The Real i in the Apple Universe—The State of Workers in a ‘Workers’ State’Economic & Political WeeklyVol. 56, Issue No. 23, 5 June 2021https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/23 Divided into 12 chapters, along with four appendixes, the book covers all the different aspects related to the ecosystem of Foxconn and its intertwined relationship with Apple, exploring the experiences on theContinue reading “Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”

 Nelson Lichtenstein (2021)Review of Dying for an iPhone

A Chinese Dystopia: Designed in CaliforniaDying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s WorkersBy Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s WorkersReviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein New Labor Forum First Published February 15, 2021  https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796020981954 New Labor Forum Editorial Board member Nelson Lichtenstein, in a review of Dying for an iPhone: Apple,Continue reading ” Nelson Lichtenstein (2021)Review of Dying for an iPhone”

Worker Organizing in China: Challenges and Opportunities

Jenny Chan. 2020. “Worker Organizing in China: Challenges and Opportunities.” Pp. 197-217 in Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives, edited by Robert Ovetz. London: Pluto Press. The URL of the edited book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786806451/workers-inquiry-and-global-class-struggle/