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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

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Jenny Chan is a doctoral student at the University of London, where she received the Reid Research Scholarship. Previously, she served as Chief Coordinator for the Hong Kong-based group Students  and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM). Founded in 2005, SACOM provides advocacy for workers' rights and brings concerned students, scholars, labor activists, and consumers together to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workers’ rights. She is currently working on a book with Pun Ngai and Mark Selden on Apple, Foxconn, and the new generation of Chinese migrant workers, provisionally entitled Dying for an iPhone.

SELECTED WORKS

Labor Notes and The Asia-Pacific Journal are both online for free public access; while we SACOM has uploaded the Current Sociology article with permission. I provide the 4 URLs below.) Jenny Chan. 2013. "Who Speaks for China's Workers?" Labor Notes. http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/05/who-speaks-china%E2%80%99s-workers 

 Jenny Chan. 2013. “A Suicide Survivor: The Life of a Chinese Worker.” New Technology, Work and Employment 28(2): 84-99. *2013. The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 31, No. 1, August 12. http://japanfocus.org/-Jenny-Chan/3977

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2013. “The Politics of Global Production: Apple, Foxconn and China’s New Working Class.” New Technology, Work and Employment 28(2): 100-15. *2013. The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 31, No. 2, August 12. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Jenny-Chan/3981

Pun, Ngai, Shen Yuan, Guo Yuhua, Lu Huilin, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2014. “Worker-Intellectual Unity: Trans-Border Sociological Intervention in Foxconn.” Current Sociology. OnlineFirst, January 7, 2014. http://sacom.hk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Current-Sociology-7-Jan-2014-Pun-et-al.pdf

*Forthcoming in 2014. In Precarious Engagements: Tackling the Dilemmas of Public Sociology, edited by Michael Burawoy. SAGE.

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  • DEAN-m Sum Talk with Professor Magdalena Kolodziej
  • DEAN-m Sum Talk with Professor Leo Ching