Author Archives: Jenny Chan

As COVID-19 Surges in China, Sick Foxconn Workers are Still Making iPhones

Rest of World (Reporting Global Tech Stories) 19 Dec 2022 By Viola Zhou Jenny Chan, a sociologist with Hong Kong Polytechnic University who has studied labor conditions at Foxconn, said that as Covid-19 cases surge at the Zhengzhou plant, management faces a challenge taking care of workers while trying to accelerate production. “The iPhone City hasContinue reading “As COVID-19 Surges in China, Sick Foxconn Workers are Still Making iPhones”

“Chine: ‘Je ne vois pas comment cet embrasement s’arrêterait’”[China: “I don’t see how this conflagration would stop”]

Dr Jenny Chan interviewed for Mediapart Dr Jenny Chan, associate professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, engaged in an interview with Eric Sautedé for Mediapart (France) 29 Nov 2022 Il y a une semaine, les ouvriers de la plus grosse usine de production d’iPhone se révoltaient, ouvrant la voie à un mouvement de protestation dansContinue reading ““Chine: ‘Je ne vois pas comment cet embrasement s’arrêterait’”[China: “I don’t see how this conflagration would stop”]”

Cuando los trabajadores de iPhone no aguantan más, estallan las protestas y las huelgas: ENTREVISTA A JENNY CHAN

[When iPhone workers can’t take it anymore, protests and strikes break out: INTERVIEW WITH JENNY CHAN] Josefina L. Martínez La Izquierda Diario (Spain) 26 Nov 2022 Jenny Chan es investigadora y profesora de la Universidad Politécnica de Hong Kong, coautora del libro Dying for an iPhone. Conversamos con Chan, quien reside en Hong Kong, acerca del estallido de laContinue reading “Cuando los trabajadores de iPhone no aguantan más, estallan las protestas y las huelgas: ENTREVISTA A JENNY CHAN”

“De arbeider achter uw iPhone” [The Workers Behind your iPhone]

Stéphanie Romans De Tijd (Belgium), 25 Nov 2022 De coronabeperkingen maken het voor journalisten lastig om arbeiders te benaderen en hun verhalen naar buiten te brengen. Jenny Chan, associate professor and coauthor of Dying for an iPhone … Link to the website of the interview : https://www.tijd.be/politiek-economie/internationaal/azie/de-arbeider-achter-uw-iphone/10430554.html Full text download below :

De Chinese arbeiders pikken het niet langer [The Chinese workers don’t take it anymore]

25 Nov 2022 De Standaard Ruben Mooijman ( Photo above : Protests at Foxconn Zhengzhou @afp) ‘Door in opstand te komen tegen het management en de autoriteiten, riskeren de arbeiders detentie of gevangenisstraf’ Jenny Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University ….. Link to the report : https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20221124_98621777 Full text download below :

Foxconn offers $1,400 payout to quell protests at China iPhone plant

24 November 2022 Ryan McMorrow and Nian Liu in Beijing and Gloria Li in Hong Kong Financial Times “Foxconn promised big money — up to Rmb15,000 a month — to quickly recruit thousands of new workers, but it doesn’t seem to have materialised. That is why workers were so disappointed,” said Jenny Chan, a ChinaContinue reading “Foxconn offers $1,400 payout to quell protests at China iPhone plant”

Haunting scenes ‘near iPhone factory’ in China: ‘Fleeing or escaping’

Michael Dahlstrom Environment Editor Yahoo News Australia Fri, 18 November 2022 at 2:31 pm·4-min read Associate Professor Dr Jenny Chan from Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been studying Foxconn since 2010. Her interest was prompted by reports the company had installed safety nets around buildings following a series of employee suicides.  The spread of theContinue reading “Haunting scenes ‘near iPhone factory’ in China: ‘Fleeing or escaping’“

Jenny Chan. 2023. Review of Poverty and Pacification: A Conversation with Dorothy J. Solinger(The China Journal)

Dorothy J. Solinger’s latest book, Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), is dedicated to ‘all of those whose lives were wrenched’ in globalising China. Solinger is passionate about working people, including rural migrants and laid-off urban workers, as reflected in her decades-long commitment to activism and scholarship. AsContinue reading “Jenny Chan. 2023. Review of Poverty and Pacification: A Conversation with Dorothy J. Solinger(The China Journal)”