Category Archives: Reviews

Dr ZHOU Yang (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone

Dr ZHOU Yang, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong Global Media and Communication First Published August 7, 2021 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17427665211017358?journalCode=gmca “Overall, with its historical and theoretical in-depth, global and comprehensive in scope, Dying for an iPhone represents a landmark contribution to debates about Chinese labour politics. It also adds new threads to critical communication scholarship as itContinue reading “Dr ZHOU Yang (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”

Manfred Elfstrom (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone

‘Factory investigations have a distinguished history stretching from Friedrich Engels’s Conditions of the Working Class in England to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, to the sweatshop exposés of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai add to this tradition withContinue reading “Manfred Elfstrom (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”

Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone

Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN The Real i in the Apple Universe—The State of Workers in a ‘Workers’ State’Economic & Political WeeklyVol. 56, Issue No. 23, 5 June 2021https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/23 Divided into 12 chapters, along with four appendixes, the book covers all the different aspects related to the ecosystem of Foxconn and its intertwined relationship with Apple, exploring the experiences on theContinue reading “Anand Parappadi KRISHNAN (2021) Review of Dying for an iPhone”

Dan V. Hirslund, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

‘Dying for an iPhone is an important book.…why iPhones continue to kill despite the advances made in ‘fair trade’ and other solidarity movements… Workers and disenfranchised populations all over the globe are feeling the brunt of capitalism’s advances in the past decades. But what sort(s) of movement(s) would it take to confront the unequal accumulation ofContinue reading “Dan V. Hirslund, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies”

 Nelson Lichtenstein (2021)Review of Dying for an iPhone

A Chinese Dystopia: Designed in CaliforniaDying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s WorkersBy Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s WorkersReviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein New Labor Forum First Published February 15, 2021  https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796020981954 New Labor Forum Editorial Board member Nelson Lichtenstein, in a review of Dying for an iPhone: Apple,Continue reading ” Nelson Lichtenstein (2021)Review of Dying for an iPhone”