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)”
Category Archives: Media Interviews
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.
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/
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
“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
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/
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,
