FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | ONLINE ONLY (VIA ZOOM) | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Hosted by
China Center for Social Policy
Featuring
JENNY CHAN & MARK SELDEN
Sociologists & co-authors, Dying for an iPhone
Moderated by
QIN GAO
Professor of Social Policy
Founding Director, China Center for Social Policy
About the Event
A spate of Chinese iPhone workers’ suicides in 2010 placed a spotlight on their working conditions, and sociologists Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai went into action, doing extensive field research on working conditions at Foxconn, the Taiwanese-invested company that is the main supplier of iPhones. Almost ten years later, they have produced the book Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers, which not only provides a riveting account of the lives of workers on the production line but also exposes the immense human costs of the company’s drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing. We invite you to join two of the writers, Jenny Chan (bio) and Mark Selden (bio), for a discussion the book’s main findings. For more information, please CLICK HERE.
Accessing the Event
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This lecture is part of the 2020–2021 annual lecture series on “Chinese Social Policy from Comparative Perspectives” cosponsored by the Columbia China Center for Social Policy and Weatherhead East Asian Institute and supported by the Columbia School of Social Work.