China’s Employment Transition: Adapting to a New Phase of Growth (CKGSB Knowledge, 28 Sep 2025)
by Patrick Body China’s employment transition: Adapting to a new phase of growth September 28, 2025 As China’s economy evolves, employment patterns are changing—creating both challenges and new opportunities “Each year, the top two career choices have increasingly become either civil service jobs or working at an SOE,” says Jenny Chan, Associate Professor of Sociology…
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China is learning to accept alternative modes of work – Jenny Chan interviewed by the Washington Post (22 Sep 2025)
China is learning to accept alternative modes of work Digital nomads have set up communes across China to opt out of the rat race. Faced with a youth unemployment crisis, Beijing is now backing alternative ways of working. September 22, 2025 By Christian Shepherd and Rudy Lu “The government is very concerned that unemployment could…
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China’s Aging Migrant Workforce (by Rachel Cheung, The Wire China, 1 Jun 2025)
Jenny Chan interviewed by Rachel Cheung for The Wire China, in “China’s Aging Migrant Workforce,” 1 Jun 2025. The Big Picture Some 300 million Chinese workers are facing a more precarious future amid the country’s economic transition. In 2008, when the Chinese government began to compile official statistics on the country’s army of migrant workers,…
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China’s Delivery Platforms Compete to Offer Better Worker Benefits (William Langley, FT, 11 Mar 2025)
William Langley The Financial Times 11 March 2025 … And while the moves were likely to be partially motivated by calls to protect workers, there also appeared to be an element of competition, with major platforms reluctant to lose drivers — and market share — to rivals. “It would be great if JD.com is really…
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Interviewed by Dia Rekhi for The Economic Times, in “Towering Ambitions: Foxconn’s Expanding Footprint in India,” 29 Dec 2024
URL “I am concerned about the reproductive health of young women,” Dr Jenny Chan, co-author of the book Dying for an iPhone, told ET. “The effect of aluminium dust and other toxic materials should not be underestimated on pregnant women. Especially in India, where the proportion of women is more, it is important that Foxconn…
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Interviewed by Dia Rekhi for The Economic Times, in “Building India’s ‘iPhone City’: Lessons from Zhengzhou’s Transformation,” 17 Nov 2024
Building India’s ‘iPhone city’: Lessons from Zhengzhou’s transformation By Dia Rekhi Nov 17, 2024 The Economic Times Jenny Chan, associate professor of sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University said Chinese local governments were instrumental in luring the likes of Foxconn to build these sprawling facilities. “They not only offered land at very subsidised rates…
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‘Really squeezed’: Chinese food delivery riders (CNN) 18 Oct 2024
Interviewed by Chris Lau, Marc Stewart and Martha Zhou for CNN, in “‘Really Squeezed’: Why Drivers in the World’s Largest Food Delivery Market are Having Meltdowns,” Oct 18, 2024. “They are working long hours, really being squeezed,” said Jenny Chan, associate sociology professor at Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. “[And] they will continue to face…
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China’s youth retreat centers (LA Times, 12 Sep 2024)
In China over the past few years, a stagnating economy and a cutthroat job market have given rise to an entirely new lexicon to talk about modern-day burnout. “The competition is just overwhelming,” said Jenny Chan, associate professor of sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, adding that economic anxiety among her students is growing. “Even with the…
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Jenny Chan interviewed for Business Insider, “Chinese Millennials and Gen Zers Have Had Enough of Work, So They’re Embracing ‘Naked Resignations’” (6 July 2024)
“Finding a decent job in big techs is a dream shared by young aspirants from elite universities,” Jenny Chan, an associate professor of sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, told BI. But succeeding in China’s tough tech industry requires full devotion of time and effort, which blurs the boundaries between work and home, she…
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Jenny Chan interviewed on Chinese tech staff, labor and management (24 June 2024, The Financial Times)
Jenny Chan, associate professor of sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, added that tech companies were “looking for young, unmarried talents who have time flexibility in megacities, while letting go of the older and ‘less competitive’ ones”. “Conflicts between work and household are acute for those with families,” she said. Interviewed by Ryan McMorrow and…
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Jenny Chan interviewed by Mengjie Cai for ABC News (25 Mar 2024)
China is considering making bosses pay workers for ‘invisible’ overtime, but is it a feasible solution? ‘996’ work culture Jenny Chan, an associate professor in sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said it was critical to look at how any laws aimed at tackling invisible overtime could be enforced and implemented. “Labour laws state…
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Mark Selden: interview on Apple, China and the US (9 Mar 2024)
9 March 2024 Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose allowing us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers. Interview with co-author Mark Selden. Mark…
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Jenny Chan interviewed by Emily Feng for NPR (18 Jan 2024)
They flocked to build China’s cities. Now builders are aging with little retirement By Emily Feng NPR 18 Jan 2024 https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1220819373/china-economy-aging-construction-workers However, many workers never had formal employment, or they worked for subcontractors who simply ignored their legal obligations to pay social insurance for employees. “This kind of very complicated or indirect form of employment…
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Combien de suicides faudra-t-il encore pour fabriquer un iPhone?
7 March 2024 Suicides, heures supplémentaires à n’en plus finir, hostilité et violence dans les usines en Chine. S’appuyant sur des témoignages de travailleurs migrants, d’étudiants en stages, de cadres et de syndicalistes, Dying for an iPhone est un exposé terrifiant permettant de mesurer combien le capitalisme peut encore aujourd’hui contribuer à la dégradations des conditions de…
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Jenny Chan interviewed by Dia Rekhi for The Economic Times
“In-depth | India’s Electronic Ambitions Ride on Young Female Employees” 24 Dec 2023 by Dia Rekhi The Economic Times / tech Link to full content: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com//tech/technology/in-depth-indias-lofty-electronics-manufacturing-ambitions-rides-heavily-on-young-women/articleshow/106237268.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst As India tries to pip China and countries like Vietnam to be the destination of choice for large electronics manufacturing firms, experts warn of certain patterns that India should not…
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Jenny Chan interviewed for Bloomberg News on youth employment (4 Dec 2023)
China Youths Swap City Dreams for Country Living as Jobs Crisis Mounts 4 Dec 2023 Bloomberg News Full content link : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-03/china-youths-swap-city-dreams-for-country-living-as-jobs-crisis-mounts?srnd=premium-asia Funneling graduates away from cities where technological innovations are developed risks further undermining growth, while slowing urbanization would reduce demand for new homes, a major contributor to the economy. Some see Xi’s rural…
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Jenny Chan interviewed for Rest of World (28 Nov 2023)
“Inside Foxconn’s Struggle to Make iPhones in India,” by Viola Zhou and Nilesh Christopher Rest of World 28 Nov 2023 Link to content : https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-india-iphone-factory/ When electronics manufacturing took off in China in the 1980s, rural women who had just begun moving to the cities made up the majority of the factory workforce. They didn’t…
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Jenny Chan is interviewed with The Independent (by ADAM LUCK, 19 Nov 2023)
“Meet the Tech Billionaire Whose Foray into Politics is Stoking Anger in China” 19 Nov 2023 The Independent by ADAM LUCK … Foxconn expert Jenny Chan, a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said: “If Gou is elected then there will be uncertainty. Xi wants to influence the outcome in the Taiwanese elections and I…
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Jenny Chan interviewed in The Wire China
Jenny Chan, Associate Professor of Sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was interviewed by Aaron Mc Nicholas for The Wire China. Foxconn Under Fire The Chinese authorities are probing the iPhone assembler as its founder Terry Gou’s political ambitions grow 12 Nov 2023 PDF Foxconn entered mainland China in 1988 when it set up a…
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Jenny Chan, with Mark Levinson. 2021. “Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City: An Interview.” Dissent (Spring): 33-40.
Interviewer: Mark Levison Dissent Spring 2021 China’s rapid economic growth is built on a factory system that relies on hundreds of millions of exploited workers. In the face of repression, those workers have found creative ways to resist. Links to the Full Content: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dreams-and-defiance-in-foxconn-city-an-interview-with-jenny-chan
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Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Rest of World about Chinese student interns
Without formal contracts and channels to voice grievances, students are easily subject to exploitation and abuse, such as long work hours and safety hazards, according to Jenny Chan, a sociologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University who studied student interns in the manufacturing sector. “They are unfree labor,” Chan told Rest of World. “Can they talk to…
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The Globalized Workforce, Deteriorating Workplace Conditions & Work-Related Suicides: Interview with Prof Jenny Chan and Prof Sarah Waters
Headspace for the Workplace, Episode 19 (July 11, 2023) Hosted by Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/headspace/19 Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Sarah Waters (University of Leeds) While we are all so very attached to our devices, many do not truly appreciate the dark underbelly of the global electronics industry. In this podcast I interview Prof Jenny…
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International Association for Suicide Prevention (the “Reach In, Reach Out” Podcast Series: Work Related Suicide), 2023
Join Dr Sally Spencer-Thomas and guests, Associate Professor Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, coauthor of Dying for an iPhone) and Professor Sarah Waters (University of Leeds, author of Suicide Voices) as they discuss work-related suicide. The International Association for Suicide Prevention is dedicated to preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour and alleviating its effects. IASP leads the global role in suicide prevention by providing a forum that brings together…
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Foxconn in India (13 Apr 2023)
Foxconn in India: Neighbour’s Pride, No One’s Envy! The Economic Times Podcast: The Morning Brief (13 Apr 2023) 35 min 31 sec Foxconn has mega plans for India. It is aided by Apple’s China Plus plans, in which India plans a big role. Dia Rekhi (The ET Podcast) talks to: Dr Jenny Chan, Associate Professor…
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Dr Jenny Chan speaks on gig manufacturing (Sixth Tone, by Peiyue Wu, 7 Mar 2023)
…“While they [gig migrant-workers] desperately search for something worthy of their labor time and effort, they don’t have access to basic social security benefits,” says Jenny Chan, an associate professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “It’s frustrating even when the local economy is slowly starting to revitalize.” Link to full content : https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1012368# below…
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Jenny Chan interviewed by Viola Zhou for Rest of World in “‘iPhones are Made in Hell’: 3 Months Inside China’s iPhone City,” 31 Jan 2023
Jenny Chan, a sociologist with Hong Kong Polytechnic University who has been studying labor issues at Foxconn since 2010… “Foxconn never aims at having a stable workforce with roots, social relations, solidarity, or bargaining power….” Chan told Rest of World. “These workers will not have a promotion path or really share the prosperity in China.” URL: https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/
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Dr Jenny Chan interviewed for The Financial Times on Apple in China (by Patrick McGee)
Part I: The Financial Times, 17 Jan 2023 How Apple tied its fortunes to China (PDF1) Part II: The Financial Times, 18 Jan 2023 What it would take for Apple to disentangle itself from China (PDF2) Jenny Chan, co-author of Dying for an iPhone, which details the lives of Foxconn workers who assemble Apple products, points out…
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Les ombres chinoises de la Silicon Valley (In the “out of sight, out of mind” podcast series)
20 Dec 2022 Link to full content website : https://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/191250/podcast/195383/les-ombres-chinoises-de-la-silicon-valley# Crédits : Voix : Noé Duflo Voix additionnelle : William Zhou Texte : Jenny Chan, Celia Izoard, « La machine est ton seigneur et ton maître », Editions Agone, 2022 Intitulé de l’épisode : repris de la postface de Célia Izoard Musique : MC光光 & 法老,…
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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 has…
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“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 dans…
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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 la…
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“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 :
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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 :
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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 China…
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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 the…
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Late to Class Podcast w/ Hank Sanders, and Jenny Chan (13 September 2022)
Episode 17: Foxconn (Jenny Chan, coauthor of Dying for an iPhone) As Apple prepares to release the latest edition of the iPhone 14, LTC asks a burning question: what goes into the manufacturing of an Apple product? Professor Jenny Chan spent several years going behind the scenes at one of the main factories where iPhones and…
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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. As…
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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
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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.
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Rural China’s youth struggling in Foxconn iPhone factories, govt slow to act, says sociologist
Chinese workers struggling to assemble iPhones as consumers queue up to buy newest models, says Jenny Chan of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University at Institute of Chinese Studies webinar. PIA KRISHNANKUTTY 10 February, 2022 links to the Full Website: . https://theprint.in/world/rural-chinas-youth-struggling-in-foxconn-iphone-factories-govt-slow-to-act-says-sociologist/826881/
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Dr Jenny Chan challenges China’s 996 culture
Women Empowered: Jenny Chan is Challenging China’s 996 Culture 8 Nov 2021 Let’s start with the basics: What is China’s 996 culture? ‘996’ is a reference to the expected work schedule in many Chinese tech and internet companies—employees arrive at 9 am and work until 9 pm, 6 days a week. Dr. Jenny Chan is…
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On Contact: Dying for an iPhone
On Contact: Dying for an iPhone 13 June 2021 (total run time: 28:51) Interviewer: Chris Hedges Interviewee: Dr Jeny Chan On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Professor Jenny Chan about the people in China who make iPhones, iPads and Kindles, driving the huge profits of two of the world’s most powerful companies…
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“Dying for an iPhone: Labor Exploitation, Migration and Strikes in China” [Morir por un iPhone: explotación laboral, migraciones y huelgas en China],
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
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“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
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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/
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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,
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“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 box…
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Foodpanda Riders’ Strike: A Look Behind the Scenes of 2-day Action and What It Says of Hong Kong’s Labour Movement
25 Nov 2021
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Kathleen Magramo for the South China Morning Post
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Foodpanda Hong Kong and couriers reach deal on pay packages, ending labour dispute that sparked weekend strike
19 Nov 2021
By Kathleen Magramo, Gigi Choy and Christy Leung, The South China Morning Post
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Kathleen Magramo on Foodpanda strikes in Hong Kong for the SCMP
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Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Mark Andrews for CKGSB Knowledge
“Special Delivery: Chinese Logistics Companies are Beefing Up Efforts to Apply Unmanned Technology to Logistics and Delivery Activities”
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
August 2021, 27-40
Online version: https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/knowledges/special-delivery/
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Mark Andrews for CKGSB Knowledge
“Special Delivery: Will Drones, Driverless Vehicles and Other Unmanned Technology Form a Part of the Future of Logistics in China?”
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
23 September 2021
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Can China’s drive to protect gig economy workers work by pressing Big Tech to give more?
By Masha Borak, The South China Morning
14 Sep 2021
The focus on labour rights is part of the Chinese government’s push to create a fairer society and narrow the income gap under President Xi Jinping
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Alibaba vows to give Rmb100bn towards China’s ‘common prosperity’
2 Sep 2021
Edward White, The Financial Times
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China steps in to regulate brutal ‘996’ work culture
2 Sep 2021
By Waiyee Yip
BBC News
Link to Content: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58381538
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“Comment le capitalisme chinois exploite: rêves et défiance à Foxconn City”
[How Chinese Capitalism Exploits: Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City]
25 June 2021, A l’Encontre
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Dying for an iPhone: labor exploitation, migration and strikes in China
[Morir por un iPhone: explotación laboral, migraciones y huelgas en China]
13 Sep 2020 by Josefina L. Martínez for Izquierda Diario.es
The rise of the iPhone as a global commodity is inseparable from the story about Steve Jobs as a great
entrepreneur 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
“Reimaging Workers’ Education to Transform the World”
24-27 May, 2021 , UALE Conference
Professor Mark Selden presented Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers on the United Association for Labor Education (UALE) Conference
Chris Hedges: “Dying for an iPhone”
31 MAY 2021 By Chris Hedges for ScheerPost
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.
Link to full content : https://scheerpost.com/2021/05/31/chris-hedges-dying-for-an-iphone/
Counting the human cost of affordable electronics
2 June 2021 by Steven Crook / Contributing reporter for Taipei Times
Few companies have had their names dragged through the mud so comprehensively as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), a conglomerate known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) in Taiwan, which operates vast factories in China and other countries….
Link to full content: https://taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/06/02/2003758451
Raising the Bar for Taiwan’s Supply Chains
BY STEVEN CROOK ON
“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 box of labor in global supply chains.”
Chan co-authored the 2020 book Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers, and is an advisor to Electronics Watch (EW), an NGO that asks public-sector buyers such as universities to use their leverage to hold brands accountable.
Link to content: https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2021/05/raising-the-bar-taiwan-supply-chains/
Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City An Interview with Jenny Chan
By Mark Levinson
Dissent (Spring 2021) is out now!
Link to the website : https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/another-lost-decade
“China is Trying to Make Policy Moves that Won’t Shake the World”
16 March 2021
Showtime for Xi as China’s annual Congress opens
4 March 2021 By DIANA FU (03/04/2021 08:29 AM EST)
“Il vero volto della Cina: la prefazione del nuovo volume di Wired”
English: “The true face of China: the preface of the new volume of Wired”
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Federico Bona for Wired, in “Il Robot Disoccupato” [The Robot Unemployed].
Number 94, Autumn (October – December) 2020.
Pp. 50-51 (Il vero volto della Cina / The true face of China)
Dr Jenny Chan featured on Faculti
1 Feb 2021
Total run time: 15:09
“Precariat Unite! The Gig Economy Challenges China’s State-Run Labour Unions.”
27 January
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Sue-Lin Wong for The Economist
“In China, Tech-Worker Deaths Spark Online Backlash“
17 January 2021
Interviewed by Sha Hua for The Wall Street Journal
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“中国科技公司一连串员工死亡事件引发网络声讨“
2021年1月17日
华沙, 华尔街日报
“Chinese Courier Sets Fire to Himself in Protest Over Unpaid Alibaba Wages
12 January 2021
Interviewed by Yuan Yang and Ryan McMorrow (with Nian Liu) for The Financial Times
“China’s Frustrated Millennials Turn to Memes to Rail against Grim Economic Prospects”
21 November 2020
Interviewed with Dr Jenny Chan by Ji Siqi for The South China Morning Post
“China’s Frustrated Millennials Turn to Memes to Rail against Grim Economic Prospects”
“Jenny Chan on Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers,” 3 October 2020.
3 October 2020
Interviewed by Russell Mokhiber for Corporate Crime Reporter (Washington, D.C.)
Tech Wont’ Save Us, 2020
17 September 2020
“How Foxconn Treats the Workers Who Built Your iPhone w/ Jenny Chan,”
Interviewer: Paris Marx
Interviewee: Dr Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
(total run time: 50 mins 22 secs)
‘El lado oscuro de los productos de Apple: el drama de los suicidios en China.’
2 August 2020
By Salvador Martínez Mas , NIUS
(English: The dark side of Apple products: the suicide drama in China)
“The lining highlights the perfection of Apple / But not our tomorrow / The scanner repeatedly announces ‘OK’ / But not the ‘Error’ of our hearts / 24 hours a day, blinding lights illuminate iPhones / Stirring our days and nights / Thousands of repeated movements do an impeccable job / Testing the limits of our aching, numb shoulders / Each screwdriver turns carefully / But it cannot turn our future around ” .
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‘Dying for an iPhone’: The human cost of Apple’s high-speed production demands
By RHODA KWAN 12:00, 29 AUGUST 2020
In 2010, 18 young workers at Foxconn factories in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen tried to commit suicide by jumping off the roof, according to researchers. Fourteen died and three survived. The youngest jumper was aged 17.
The spate of suicides sparked a decade-long investigation by the team of researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This led to a book, Dying for an iPhone, written by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai and published this summer.
Undercover investigations
Chan and her team went undercover at Foxconn factories, donning the company uniform and borrowing staff cards to assess conditions in venues such as workers’ canteens and dormitories, and some production workshops.
Dying for an iPhone 