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”
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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 theContinue reading “Haunting scenes ‘near iPhone factory’ in China: ‘Fleeing or escaping’“
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 andContinue reading “Late to Class Podcast w/ Hank Sanders, and Jenny Chan (13 September 2022)”
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)”
Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City: An Interview with Jenny Chan
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
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.
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 isContinue reading “Dr Jenny Chan challenges China’s 996 culture”
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 companiesContinue reading “On Contact: Dying for an iPhone”
“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
Dying for an iPhone 