Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Pun Ngai

Dying for an iPhone

Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers

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Produktbeschreibung

A harrowing look at the lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 143mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781642591248
• ISBN-10: 1642591246
• Artikelnr.: 57347463

Autorenporträt

Jenny Chan (Ph.D. 2014) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and China Studies in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also a Member of the Sub-committee on “Community, Organization and Globalisation” Subjects, and a Management Committee Member of China and Global Development Network. She serves as the Vice President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2023). Her first book is Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers (co-authored with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai). She co-edited a 2019 special issue of Critical Sociology entitled, “Precarization and Labor Resistance” (with Chris Rhomberg and Manjusha Nair).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface1. A Suicide Survivor2. Foxconn: The World's Largest Electronics Manufacturer3. Apple Meets Foxconn4. Consuming Apple 5. Living in the City6. Managing Foxconn7. Voices of Student Interns 8. Fire and Explosions9. Environmental Crisis10. Dead Man Walking11. Strikes and Protests12. Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese WorkersEpilogue