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Dying for an iPhone : Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China's workers / Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1642591246
  • 1642592250
  • 9781642591248
  • 9781642592252
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD5230 .C436 2020
Contents:
1 A Suicide Survivor -- 2 Foxconn: The World's Largest Electronics Manufacturer -- 3 Apple Meets Foxconn -- 4 Managing Foxconn -- 5 Voices of Student Interns -- 6 Fire and Brimstone -- 7 Wandering the City -- 8 Chasing Dreams -- 9 Confronting Environmental Crisis -- 10 Dead Man Walking -- 11 Strikes and Protests -- 12 Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers.
Summary: Suicides, 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,Dying for an iPhoneis a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. 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. 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.Dying for an iPhoneallows us to assess the impact of global capitalism's deepening crisis on workers.'
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD5230 .C436 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001500007

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

1 A Suicide Survivor -- 2 Foxconn: The World's Largest Electronics Manufacturer -- 3 Apple Meets Foxconn -- 4 Managing Foxconn -- 5 Voices of Student Interns -- 6 Fire and Brimstone -- 7 Wandering the City -- 8 Chasing Dreams -- 9 Confronting Environmental Crisis -- 10 Dead Man Walking -- 11 Strikes and Protests -- 12 Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers.

Suicides, 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,Dying for an iPhoneis a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. 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. 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.Dying for an iPhoneallows us to assess the impact of global capitalism's deepening crisis on workers.'

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