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-이야기 손님 : 제니 챈, 반올림 활동가 -일시 : 2022년 5월 2일(월) 오후 7시 (한국 시각) -장소 : 줌 온라인(신청자에게 링크 발송)  -참가 신청 https://bit.ly/dying_for_an_iphone -문의 : 010-4165-6235 -Speaker : Jenny Chan and a SHARPS activist -Date & time : Monday, May 02, 2022 at 7:00 PM (Korea Standard Time) -Venue : Zoom Online (applicants will be sent a link)  -Registration https://bit.ly/dying_for_an_iphone -Contact Us : +82)10-4165-6235,  sharps@hanmail.net —————————————————– 반도체노동자의 건강과 인권지킴이 ‘반올림’전화: 02-3496-5067Continue reading “International Labor Day 2022, Online public event: 2 May 2022 Monday”

venue: conference via ZOOM  Link to the conference :　https://www.ilpc2022.fisppa.it/mod/page/view.php?id=12

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/

Dying for an iPhone accuses the working condition of the ‘Electronic Empire’ Foxconn factory that produces Apple products. There is a suicide incident of workers in a huge factory where around 1 million people work and the authors of the book are experiencing brutal working conditions by entering the factory. The translator of the book, regularContinue reading “Book talk of Dying for an iPhone in Korean”

zoom: https://icsin.org/newsletter/show/wednesday-seminar-book-discussion-dying-for-an-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-the-lives-of-chinas-workers-9th-february-300-pm-ist-zoom-webinar The meeting room will be open from 2:30 PM IST onwards, with the webinar formally starting at 3:00 PM IST (that is, Hong Kong at 5:30PM).

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”

20 May 2021 online via Zoom Edited by Robert Ovetz Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1799163536910008/

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

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”