{"product_id":"dying-for-an-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-the-lives-of-chinas-workers-9781642591248","title":"Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone\u003c\/em\u003e is a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn's drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China's goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone\u003c\/em\u003e allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism's deepening crisis on workers.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChan, Jenny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJenny 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrently, 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 \u003cem\u003eGlobal Labour Journal \u003c\/em\u003e(2019-), an Editorial Board Member of \u003cem\u003eRural China: An International Journal of History and Social Science \u003c\/em\u003e(2019-), and a Contributing Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Asia-Pacific Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (2015-). Her first book is \u003cem\u003eDying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China's Workers\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai). She co-edited a 2019 special issue of \u003cem\u003eCritical Sociology \u003c\/em\u003eentitled, \"Precarization and Labor Resistance\" (with Chris Rhomberg and Manjusha Nair).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelden, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMark 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 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars\u003c\/strong\u003e and subsequently of \u003cstrong\u003eCritical Asian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books and editor of book series at Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, Routledge, M.E. Sharpe, and Lexington Publishers. His books have appeared in translation in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and Polish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNgai, Pun:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePun Ngai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525060595986,"sku":"9781642591248","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e7964908-5947-40fe-b847-3516fa0a8057.jpg?v=1731201876","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dying-for-an-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-the-lives-of-chinas-workers-9781642591248","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}