“Dying for an iPhone,” DigiLabor Summer School, Moderated by Rafael Grohmann. Organized by Laboratório de Pesquisa DigiLabour, Unisinos (University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos), Brazil, DigiLabour Research Lab.

On Thursday 28 Jan 2021,(Hong Kong time 8:00 – 9:30PM) Here’s the link for live stream on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tucwmqFXRzs

Book Talk(28Jan 2021): Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers

Date: 28 January 2021 Venue: Columbia University Speakers:  Jenny Chan and Mark Selden Remarks: The book talk will be done via Zoom Detail URL: https://chinacenter.socialwork.columbia.edu/events/book-talk-dying-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-lives-chinas-workers

Breaking News : Upcoming Webinar (Expired)

“Fighting Foxconn: Lessons learned from online and offline activism in China” We are going to host a webinar. This webinar, by contrast, will be delivered online, linking we (Hong Kong) and colleagues in London and the USA. Dr Jenny Chan will in the first event of the four-event series. * Please register through the linkContinue reading “Breaking News : Upcoming Webinar (Expired)”

“A Worker’s Requiem” 勞動者靈歌

“A Worker’s Requiem” 勞動者靈歌  by Mininoise (Hong Kong grassroots folk band) 迷你噪音(香港草根民謠樂團) An online music video, featuring singing in Cantonese Lyrics Chinese: 勞動者靈歌 我的身體在延綿躺息於樓房骨架內城市景觀的錯落石屎沙土中緊閉埋著我的故事 每一口吸入塵毒再呼出盈利的數值隨著價位的上落年度煙花中揮霍燃著我的呼吸 背彎隱隱在呢喃電算機蠶食生命沉重背包肩膀上勞損筋骨的深處藏著我的辛酸 我的身體在陳詞痛斥這繁榮虛與偽離別暗黑的角落勞損身心相擁抱仍是你我不屈 淚水點滴凝聚沉澱著年月的重力無論夢境多破落靈魂始終風中唱勞動者的故事 English translation: A Worker’s Requiem My body stretches longlying within a bare buildingobstructing the cityscape,sealed tightly in cementburying my story With each mouthful of toxic dust inhaledprofitContinue reading ““A Worker’s Requiem” 勞動者靈歌”