Dying for an iPhone

Jenny Chan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also the Vice President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Labour Movements. Her recent articles have been published widely in Current Sociology, Modern China, Rural China, and many other journals and edited volumes.Mark Selden is Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. He is editor of the online Asia-Pacific Journal. His books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited, The Political Economy of Chinese Development and The Cambridge History of Communism.Pun Ngai is Professor of Sociology at The University of Hong Kong. She is author of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace and Migrant Labor in China.

'Takes us to the dark side of Apple'

• List of Tables and Figures Preface 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 EpilogueAcknowledgments Appendix 1: Our Book Website Appendix 2: Suicides and Attempted Suicidesat Foxconn in China, 2010 Appendix 3: Fieldwork in China Appendix 4: Foxconn Facilities around the World Notes Selected Bibliography Index