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Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Ngai PunPublish date:2020-08-18Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592252ISBN-10:1642592250UPC:9781642592252Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Labor & Industrial Relations, Globalization, Political FreedomSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC1V8H8TFZ

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

Language:EnglishPublisher:Haymarket BooksISBN-13:9781642592252ISBN-10:1642592250UPC:9781642592252Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Labor & Industrial Relations, Globalization, Political FreedomSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC1V8H8TFZ
Chan, Jenny: -

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 (a Sub-committee of the Academic Planning and Regulations Committee), and a Management Committee Member of the China Research and Development Network, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Currently, Jenny is the Vice President of Communications of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022), an Advisory Board Member of the Global Labour Journal (2019-), an Editorial Board Member of Rural China: An International Journal of History and Social Science (2019-), and a Contributing Editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal (2015-). 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).

Selden, Mark: -

Mark Selden is a Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program, Cornell University and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History, State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus http: //japanfocus.org. His research encompasses the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy and history of China, Japan and the Asia Pacific, ranging broadly across themes of war and revolution, inequality, development, environment, precarity, social movements, regional and world social change, and historical memory. In 1968 he was a founding member of The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and for more than thirty years he was an editor of The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and subsequently of Critical Asian Studies. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books and editor of book series at Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, M.E. Sharpe, and Lexington Publishers. His books have appeared in translation in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

Pun, Ngai: -

Pun Ngai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.

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