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Review of: Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (2020) Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers By Jaesok Kim, Professor of anthropology and chair of the Institute for China Studies, Seoul National University ‘With the transnational shift of manufacturing jobs, consumer awareness of the links between globalised manufacturing and the localised plight ofContinue reading “Jaesok Kim (Seoul National University): review of Dying for an iPhone”

‘Dying for an iPhone is an important addition to a substantive body of scholarship on the politics of labour in post-socialist China…. It will be of great interest both for teaching purposes and for scholars, journalists, and social activists interested in global labour.” —Eric Florence, China Perspectives 2022/2 (June), pp. 79-80 Full Text in :　https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.13877

By Arne L. Kalleberg, Kevin Hewison and Kwang-Yeong Shin Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022 REVIEWER: Jenny Chan URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2022.2032281

‘In contrast to treating migrant workers as factorial resources, the three authors with sociological and historical backgrounds provide a bottom‐up perspective, focusing on the economic, social and political exploitation of migrant workers.… Dying for an iPhone coagulates the efforts of labour activists and scholars under an increasing authoritarian state over the past decade, which is truly inspiring.Continue reading “Book Review by Hui XU, New Technology, Work and Employment”

‘Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai is a detailed unpacking and deconstruction of the tales that Foxconn and Apple spewed to the world…. We learn of the use of student interns, of the differential ways in which young men and women negotiated their loves and desires, and of the near-impossibleContinue reading “Ralph Litzinger (2021) Journal of Asian Studies: a new Book Review of Dying for an iPhone”