Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Josefina L. Martínez for Izquierda Diario.es, 13 September 2020. The rise of the iPhone as a global commodity is inseparable from the story about Steve Jobs as a greatentrepreneur who transformed a small garage company… Link in Spanish: http://www.izquierdadiario.es/Morir-por-un-iPhone-explotacion-laboral-migraciones-yhuelgas-en-China Link in English: http://www.izquierdadiario.es/Morir-por-un-iPhone-explotacion-laboral-migraciones-y-huelgasen-China
Author Archives: Jenny Chan
“Reimaging Workers’ Education to Transform the World”
United Association for Labor Education (UALE) Conference,May 24-27, 2021 Professor Mark Selden presented Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers Link : https://uale.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-REVISED-Final-Program-4.pdf
Chris Hedges: “Dying for an iPhone”
The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is ignored by our corporatized media, and yet, it is one of the most important human rights issues of our era. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost, 31 May 2021 Link : https://scheerpost.com/2021/05/31/chris-hedges-dying-for-an-iphone/
Counting the human cost of affordable electronics
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter，2 June 2021. Twelve-hour shifts, compulsory overtime and one day off a month are among the practices employed at some China-based factories of Taiwan’s tech giants Below show the content of the interview. Link： “Counting the Human Cost of Affordable Electronics,
“Raising the Bar for Taiwan’s Supply Chains,”
12 May 2021 By Steven Crook Taiwan Business TOPICS (The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan) “Apple has had one eye open and one eye closed,” says Jenny Chan, an assistant professor of sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “Also, Apple is not alone in causing such problems. We seek to open the big black boxContinue reading ““Raising the Bar for Taiwan’s Supply Chains,””
Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contractors in China’s Last-Mile Delivery
Jenny Chan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 1 June 2021 webinar China’s e-commerce boom is fueled not only by Alibaba, JD, and Amazon but also by 4 million parcel express delivery workers. To make their deliveries in the shortest possible time, rather than navigating online, they devise their own routes and build social relations to facilitateContinue reading “Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contractors in China’s Last-Mile Delivery”
Dan V. Hirslund, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
‘Dying for an iPhone is an important book.…why iPhones continue to kill despite the advances made in ‘fair trade’ and other solidarity movements… Workers and disenfranchised populations all over the globe are feeling the brunt of capitalism’s advances in the past decades. But what sort(s) of movement(s) would it take to confront the unequal accumulation ofContinue reading “Dan V. Hirslund, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies”
Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle
20 May 2021 online via Zoom Edited by Robert Ovetz Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1799163536910008/
“Long Hours, No Pay? Electronics Manufacturing in China and India.”
Moderated by Andreas Ratchev (Asia Society Switzerland), with Dr Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Dr Neethi P. (Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India). Asia Society Switzerland, online, 29 April 2021. Click Here to complete content
Book Talk: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
Online (Zoom webinar), January 28, 20219:00 AM – 10:30 AM This book talk focuses on the life and death struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers who produce our iPhones, Kindles, and Xboxes. Between the rash of employee suicides in 2010 and the outbreak of coronavirus at the end of 2019, my colleagues and I engagedContinue reading “Book Talk: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers”
