Pluto Press Webinar
"Fighting Foxconn: Lessons learned from online and offline activism in China"
Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
Authors: Jenny CHAN, Mark SELDEN and PUN Ngai
Undercover research reveals Foxconn and Apple’s treatment of Chinese workers and resistance
Event: https://howweorganise1.eventbrite.co.uk/
The seminar series (4 events): https://plutopress.eventbrite.co.uk/
Date and Time
30 October 2020 Friday, London at 5:00PM (HK Time: 31 October 2020 Saturday 1:00AM)
Length: 90 - 120 minutes
(with the first 45 minutes to an hour for short presentations and dialogues; then, open to Q&A)
Moderator
Dr Robert Ovetz (San Jose State Unviersity)
Speakers
Dr Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof Mark Selden (Cornell University)
Guests
Prof Ralph Litzinger (Duke University)
Ying Chen (The New School)
Host
Pluto Press
Co-sponsors
- Haymarket Books
- China Research and Development Network, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- The University of Oxford China Centre
- India China Institute, The New School
- The Asia-Pacific Journal
- Made in China
- New Politics
- Journal of Labor and Society
Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1468-dying-for-an-iphone
Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341286/dying-for-an-iphone/
Authors’ book website: www.dyingforaniphone.com
Pluto Press (June 2020)
Paperback ISBN: 9780745341293
Hardcover ISBN: 9780745341286
eBook ISBN: 9781786806277
Haymarket Books (August 2020)
Paperback ISBN: 9781642591248
Hardcover ISBN: 9781642592252
eBook ISBN: 9781642592047
The Wire China: https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/09/20/history-is-what-china-makes-of-it/
The book, Dying for an iPhone, is shortlisted by The Wire China in its September 2020 issue (20 September 2020):