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,””
Author Archives: Jenny Chan
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”
Behind the Scenes of a Tech Giant: Factories and Marginalized Voices of Workers
Dr Jenny Chan speaks on 2021 NYU Shanghai event series 22 April 2021 Dr Jenny Chan, “Behind the Scenes of a Tech Giant: Factories and Marginalized Voices of Workers.” Moderated by Dr Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng (Associate Professor of International Education, New York University) and Ziyi Mo (Dean’s Fellow, Student Life), with support from Joyce TanContinue reading “Behind the Scenes of a Tech Giant: Factories and Marginalized Voices of Workers”
Stagiaires : les 15 millions de forçats de l’industrie électronique chinoise
(Trainees: the 15 million convicts of the Chinese electronics industry) Article écrit par Jenny Chan et Brigitte Demeure. (Article written by Jenny Chan and Brigitte Demeure.) Link to the Article: https://www.greenit.fr/2021/03/16/stagiaires-les-15-millions-de-forcats-de-lindustrie-electronique-chinoise/ Âgée de 16 ans, CaoWang découvre en arrivant dans la zone de développement industriel de Sichuan (Chine) que son « stage » consiste àContinue reading “Stagiaires : les 15 millions de forçats de l’industrie électronique chinoise”
Electronics Watch: Protests and Precarity – Can public Procurement Drive Change? (Jenny Chan, Aneesh Manjunaath, Kristin Tallbo and Angus Warren)
Date : 26 February, 2021, 10.00-11.00 (Central European Time) Link of detail: https://electronicswatch.org/en/electronics-watch-webinars_2540998 Register here Brief: Worker protests over pay disputes at electronics suppliers in India and China at the end of last year briefly directed the world’s attention to precarious work in electronics supply chains. In the case of Wistron in Bangalore, India, 90% of theContinue reading “Electronics Watch: Protests and Precarity – Can public Procurement Drive Change? (Jenny Chan, Aneesh Manjunaath, Kristin Tallbo and Angus Warren)”
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Kevin Lin take a harrowing look into lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers.
Date: 26 February 2021 Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 11:30 PM – Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 1:00 AM HKT Haymarket Books: Dying for an iPhone (Jenny Chan and Mark Selden, with Kevin Lin) Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dying-for-an-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-the-lives-of-chinas-workers-tickets-142105239597
Dying for an iPhone 