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 :
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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)”
La machine est ton seigneur et ton maitre (The machine is your lord and master)
La machine est ton seigneur et ton maître (2022) Authors: XU Lizhi, Yang, Jenny Chan Agone (France), 2022 https://agone.org/livres/la-machine-est-ton-seigneur-et-ton-maitre Rue Dorion (Canada), 2022 https://www.ruedorion.ca/portfolio_page/la-machine-est-ton-seigneur/
ILPC2022 Provisional Programme , 21-23 April 2022
venue: conference via ZOOM Link to the conference : https://www.ilpc2022.fisppa.it/mod/page/view.php?id=12
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
By Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison and Kwang-Yeong Shin Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022 REVIEWER: Jenny Chan URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2022.2032281
Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers
Date: 22 Mar 2022 Time: 09:30 – 11:10 Venue: Online via ZOOM Speaker: Dr Jenny Chan Link to Register : https://www.polyu.edu.hk/en/cc/news-and-events/events/2022/03/22/
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Wu Peiyue for Sixth Tone on Chinese employment
China Needs Factory Workers, Not Drivers: National People’s Congress (NPC) Delegate by WU Peiyue Sixth Tone (9 March 2022) Link to the interview : https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009848/china-needs-factory-workers%2C-not-drivers-npc-delegate
Jenny Chan, with Robert Ovetz and Ivan Franceschini. 2021. “Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: A Conversation.”
Made in China Journal: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights 6(3) (Sept – Dec): 170-77.
Dying for an iPhone 