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Jenny Chan 陳慧玲

Certificate (Oxford), B.S.Sc (CUHK), M.Phil. (HKU), Ph.D. (London)

Telephone: +852 2766 5743 (office) +852 5489 0341 (mobile / whatsapp)

WeChat: jennywlchan │Skype: wlchanskype

Email: jenny.wl.chan@polyu.edu.hk │wlchan_cuhk@yahoo.com

Address: HJ433, Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hong Kong

ORCID Jenny Chan │ Scopus Jenny Chan

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Labor, Class, Gender, The State, Ethnography, Sociology, China

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2016 – Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences,

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2014 – 2016 Lecturer of Sociology and China Studies, Contemporary China Studies,

School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford

2009 – 2014 Reid Research Scholar, Faculty of History and Social Sciences,

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Sociology and China Studies, University of London, United Kingdom

M.Phil. Sociology (Distinction), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

B.S.Sc. Sociology (Hons), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Certificate English, The Oxford English Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

2015 – Editor, Global Labour Journal

2015 – Contributing Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal

RESEARCH COMMITTEE POSITION

2014 – Board Member, Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44),

International Sociological Association

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GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS (selected)

2018 – 2020 Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong,

“Internships, Informal Labor and Vocational Skills Training in China”

[HK$518,000]; Start date: 1/1/2018 (RGC Project No. 25602517; Project

A/C Code: F-PP4M)

2018 – 2020 University’s Matching Fund for Successful Early Career Scheme Project

[HK$46,800]; Start date: 1/1/2018 (RGC Project No. 25602517; Project

A/C Code: F-PP4M)

2017 – 2018 Workers’ Movement and Labor Security Research Office, Beijing

Municipal Trade Union Federation (北京市总工会工运史和劳动保护研

究室) & The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, “China’s Digital

Capitalism: A Labor Relations Study of App-Mediated Food Delivery

Services” [RMB99,000]; Start date: 1/1/2018 [with Sophie Sun, Amber

Zhang, and Yujie (Julie) Chen]

2017 – 2020 Start-Up Fund, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, “The Transformation of China’s Working Class”

[HK$235,375]; Start date: 1/6/2017 (Project A/C Code: 1-ZE8P)

2016 – 2018 United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, “Gender and Social

Work in China” [HK$194,000]; Start date: 26/9/2016 (Project A/C Code:

5-ZH1Y) [with Pun Ngai, Anita Koo, and Kan Yip]

2016 – 2017 Staff Development Grant, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The

Hong Kong Polytechnic University [HK$25,000]

2015 – 2018 Junior Research Fellowship, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Date of Award: 5/5/2015; Start date: 1/10/2015

2015 – 2016 The John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund,

“Learning for Jobs: Internship, Vocational Education, and the Law in

China” [£6,507]; Start date: 30/3/2016 (ref 152/015)

2015 – 2016 Research Grant, Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary

Area Studies, University of Oxford [£1,400]; Start date: 1/9/2015

2014 – 2015 Research Grant, Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary

Area Studies, University of Oxford [£1,400]; Start date: 1/9/2014

2013 – 2014 Chinese Student Awards, The Great Britain-China Educational Trust, The

Great Britain China Centre, London [£2,000]; Date of Award: 8/5/2013

(ref 269944/2013)

2009 – 2012 Reid Research Scholarship, Faculty of History and Social Sciences,

University of London [£49,920]; Start date: 21/9/2009

2009 – 2012 Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Royal Holloway and Bedford New

College, University of London [£19,500]; Start date: 21/9/2009

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PUBLICATIONS

Writing in English and Chinese; Translated in Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish,

and other languages.

Books

Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai. (Manuscript currently under review as of 1 May

2018). Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers. Lanham,

MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Yang, Jenny Chan and Xu Lizhi. (Forthcoming). La máquina es su Señor y Señor vuestro

(The Machine is Your Lord and Your Master). Translated in Spanish. Virus Publishing

House.

Yang, Jenny Chan and Xu Lizhi. 2015. La machine est ton seigneur et ton maître (The

Machine is Your Lord and Your Master). Translated in French by Celia Izoard. Cent mille

signes. Éditions Agone. x, 110 pages. ISBN: 978-2-7489-0238-9.

潘毅、陳慧玲、馬克．塞爾登。2015。《蘋果背後的生與死──生產線上的富士康工

人》。劉昕亭 譯。香港︰中華書局。xv, 238頁. ISBN: 978-988-8310-74-6.

Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2015. Morire per un iPhone (Dying for an

iPhone). Translated in Italian by Ferruccio Gambino and Giorgio Grappi; edited by

Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto. Milan: Jaca Books. 269 pages. ISBN: 978-88-16-

41246-0.

Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2014. Morir por un iPhone (Dying for an

iPhone). Translated in Spanish by Florencia Olivera; edited by Andrés Ruggeri. Ciudad

Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Continente S.R.L. 220 pages. ISBN:

978-950-754-501-6.

Edited Volumes

Critical Sociology, “Precarious Work: The United States, India and China.” Co-edited

with Manjusha Nair and Chris Rhomberg. (In progress as of 1 May 2018).

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Journal Articles

陈慧玲。2017。〈中国实习劳工〉。《中国乡村研究》, 专题“中国的非正规经济再思

考”，第 14 辑，页 78-97。

Jenny Chan. 2017. “Intern Labor in China.” Rural China: An International Journal of

History and Social Science 14(1): 82-100.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2017. “The Labour Politics of China’s Rural Migrant

Workers.” Globalizations 14(2): 259-71.

Pun Ngai, Yuan Shen, Yuhua Guo, Huilin Lu, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2016.

“Apple, Foxconn, and Chinese Workers’ Struggles from a Global Labor Perspective.”

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17(2): 166-85.

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2015. “Interns or Workers? China’s Student

Labor Regime.” Asian Studies (Official Journal of the Asian Studies Association of Hong

Kong) 1(1): 69-98.

*Jointly published with The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 36, No. 2.

http://apjjf.org/-Jenny-Chan/4372

Chris Smith and Jenny Chan. 2015. “Working for Two Bosses: Student Interns as

Constrained Labour in China.” Human Relations 68(2): 305-26.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2014. “China’s Rural Migrant Workers, the State, and

Labor Politics.” Critical Asian Studies 46(4): 599-620.

Pun Ngai, Yuan Shen, Yuhua Guo, Huilin Lu, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2014.

“Worker-Intellectual Unity: Trans-Border Sociological Intervention in Foxconn.” Current

Sociology 62(2): 209-22.

Jenny Chan. 2013. “A Suicide Survivor: The Life of a Chinese Worker.” New Technology,

Work and Employment 28(2): 84-99.

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.

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Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2013. “The Spatial Politics of Labor in China: Life, Labor, and

a New Generation of Migrant Workers.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 112(1): 179-90.

Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2012. “Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers: The

Foxconn Experience.” Modern China 38(4): 383-410.

Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai. 2010. “Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese

Migrant Workers.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 37, No. 2. http://apjjf.org/-

Jenny-Chan/3408/article.html

Pun Ngai, Chris King-Chi Chan, and Jenny Chan. 2010. “The Role of the State, Labour

Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China.” Global Labour Journal

1(1): 132-51. https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/issue/view/122

Jenny Chan. 2009. “Meaningful Progress or Illusory Reform? Analyzing China’s Labor

Contract Law.” New Labor Forum: A Journal of Ideas, Analysis and Debates 18(2): 43-

51.

Jenny Chan. 2006. “Chinese Women Workers Organize in the Export Zone.” New Labor

Forum: A Journal of Ideas, Analysis and Debates 15(1): 19-27.

Book Chapters

Jenny Chan. (In progress). “Worker Voice in a Developing Economy: The Experience of

China.” Handbook of Employee Voice, edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Jimmy Donaghey,

Tony Dundon, and Richard Freeman. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. (In progress). “Labor Legislation, Workers, and the State.”

Handbook of Dissent and Protest in China, edited by Teresa Wright. Cheltenham, UK:

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “Researching Unfree Student Labour in Apple’s Supply

Chain.” Ch. 8 in Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy: Methodological

Challenges and Advances, edited by Genevieve LaBaron. Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

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Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “Economic Growth and Labor Security.” Pp. 166-88 in The

SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China, Volume 1, edited by Weiping Wu and Mark

W. Frazier. London: SAGE.

Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “The Collective Resistance of China’s Industrial Workers.”

Global Perspectives on Workers’ and Labour Organisations, edited by Maurizio Atzeni

and Immanuel Ness. Springer series on “Work, Organization, and Employment.”

Singapore: Springer.

Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. (Forthcoming). “Suicide or Murder? Apple,

Foxconn and China’s Workers.” Sociology and Social Justice, edited by Margaret

Abraham. London: SAGE.

Jenny Chan. 2018. “Assessing Working-Class Power in Postsocialist China.” Pp. 164-83

in On the Road to Global Labor History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden, edited

by Karl Heinz Roth. Leiden, the Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV.

Jenny Chan. 2018. “#iSlaveat10.” Pp. 102-5 in Gilded Age: A Year of Chinese Labour,

Civil Society, and Rights—Made in China Yearbook 2017, edited by Ivan Franceschini

and Nicholas Loubere. Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University.

Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai. 2017. “‘Growth, Thy Name is Suffering’: The

Workers of the Workshop of the World.” Pp. 318-23 in World Factory: The Game, edited

by Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw. London: Nick Hern Books.

Jenny Chan. 2017. “Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance.” Pp. 98-

117 in The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements, edited

by Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke. Philadelphia: Temple University

Press.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2017. “The Labour Politics of China’s Rural Migrant

Workers.” Pp. 81-93 in Chinese Labour in the Global Economy: Capitalist Exploitation

and Strategies of Resistance, edited by Andreas Bieler and Chun-Yi Lee. Rethinking

Globalizations Series. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

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Tony Dundon and Jenny Chan. 2017. “Fire Fighting HRM in China’s New Global

Economy.” Case Study 1.2. Pp. 24-25 in Contemporary Human Resource Management:

Texts and Cases, edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, and Tony Dundon. 5th Ed.

Harlow, England: Pearson Education.

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2016. “The Politics of Global Production: Apple,

Foxconn and China’s New Working Class.” Pp. 353-76 in Labour in Global Value Chains

in Asia, edited by Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

*Online open access in July 2017, Cambridge University Press

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2016. “Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New

Working Class.” Pp. 173-89 in Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy, edited

by Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

陈慧玲、潘毅、马克．塞尔登。2016。〈中国的工人抗争和工会改革〉。《社论前

沿》。https://read01.com/xgznQM.html

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2016. “Labor Protests and Trade Union Reforms

in China.” Pp. 207-24 in Flexible Workforces and Low Profit Margins: Electronics

Assembly between Europe and China, edited by Jan Drahokoupil, Rutvica Andrijasevic

and Devi Sacchetto. Brussels, Belgium: ETUI (European Trade Union Institute).

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2016. “Chinese Labor Protest and Trade

Unions.” Pp. 290-302 in The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media, edited by

Richard Maxwell. New York: Routledge.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2016. “China’s Rural Migrant Workers and Labour

Politics.” Pp. 362-82 in Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China, edited by

Yingjie Guo. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2015. “Apple’s iPad City: Subcontracting

Exploitation to China.” Pp. 76-97 in Handbook of the International Political Economy of

Production, edited by Kees van der Pijl. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

李长江、陈慧玲。2012。〈富士康走出西部〉。《我在富士康》，潘毅、卢晖临、郭于

华、沈原 (编著)。北京︰知识产权出版社。

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Jenny Chan. 2012. “Labor Rights Training at HP Supplier Factories in China.” Pp. 314-27

in Industrial Democracy in China: With Additional Studies on Germany, South-Korea and

Vietnam, edited by Rudolf Traub-Merz and Kinglun Ngok. Beijing: China Social Sciences

Press.

*Open access, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

陈慧玲。2012。〈惠普中国供应厂中的劳工权利培训〉。《中国产业民主︰兼论德

国、韩国与越南》，鲁道夫．特劳普—梅茨、岳经纶 (编著)。北京︰中国社会科学

出版社。

*网上公开版本, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Chris King-Chi Chan, Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2010. “The Role of the State, Labour

Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China.” Pp. 45-63 in Globalization

and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses, edited by Paul Bowles and John

Harriss. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jenny Chan. 2005. “The Chinese Working Women Network.” Pp. 28-33 in Made by

Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’

Rights. International Secretariat, Clean Clothes Campaign.

廖靜玫、陳慧玲。2003。〈犯罪〉。《香港婦女檔案──2003增修版》，洪雪蓮、馮國

堅(編著)。香港︰新婦女協進會。

陳慧玲。2000。〈城市空間‧小販‧生活〉。《沒有小販的都市》，葉蔭聰、林藹雲

(編著)。香港︰街角(香港社運文化筆記)。

Editorials to the Global Labour Journal

2017. “Editorial.” Global Labour Journal (May) 8(2). (co-authored with Rina Agarwala,

Alexander Gallas, and Ben Scully)

2016. “Editors’ Introduction.” Global Labour Journal (January) 7(1). (co-authored with

Rina Agarwala, Alexander Gallas, and Ben Scully)

2015. “Editors’ Introduction.” Global Labour Journal (January) 6(1). (co-authored with

Rina Agarwala, Alexander Gallas, and Ben Scully)

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Book Reviews, blogs, and short articles

Jenny Chan. 2018. “Class Inequalities and Social Struggles in China.” Global Dialogue:

Magazine of the International Sociological Association, Vol. 8, Issue 1. April.

http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/class-inequalities-and-social-struggles-in-china/

*Global Dialogue (pp. 48-49): http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/wp-

content/uploads/2018/03/v8i1-english.pdf

*Available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Indonesian,

Japanese, Kazakh, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. 2017. “Apple and Foxconn in the Trump Era.” Pp. 118-22

in “China’s Goal: Hegemony or Global Partnership?” China’s World, Vol. 2, Issue 2.

London: Huawen Institute. http://www.chinasworld.co.uk/cw/issues

Jenny Chan. 2017. “Robots, Not Humans: Official Policy in China.” 1 November. New

Internationalist (UK). https://newint.org/features/2017/11/01/industrial-robots-china

Jenny Chan. 2017. “#iSlaveat10.” Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil

Society, and Rights. Volume 2, Issue 3, Chinese Labour in a Global Perspective, July-

September, pp. 20-23. ISSN 2206-9119. http://www.chinoiresie.info/PDF/Made-in-

China_3_2017.pdf

Jenny Chan. 2017. Review of Jack Linchuan Qiu’s Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for

Digital Abolition, Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016, vii+ 230 pp,

ISBN 978-0-252-08212-2, doi:10.1017/S0305741017000728, The China Quarterly, 230,

June, pp. 533-35.

Jenny Chan. 2017. “The Apple Way to Make Products.” Pp. 89-93 in “Globalisation—The

Downside?” China’s World, Vol. 2, Issue 1. London: Huawen Institute.

http://www.chinasworld.co.uk/

Mark Selden and Jenny Chan. 2016. “China’s New Labour Politics.” China Policy

Institute: Analysis—The online journal of the China Policy Institute, University of

Nottingham, 20 October.

Sarah Waters and Jenny Chan. 2016. “How Work Can Lead to Suicide in a Globalized

Economy.” The Conversation, 17 August.

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Jenny Chan and Olga Martin-Ortega. 2016. “The Apple Way to Make Products: A

Response to Apple’s 10th Supplier Responsibility Progress Report.” openDemocracy

(Beyond Trafficking and Slavery), International Labor Conference, ILO (International

Labor Organization), 6 June.

陈慧玲。2016。〈代工厂用工状况依然糟糕，苹果忽悠消费者的功力倒是上了天〉。

《破土》。4 月 28 日。

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2016. “Dying for an iPhone: The Lives of

Chinese Workers.” chinadialogue. 15 April.

陈慧玲、潘毅、马克．塞尔登。2016。〈苹果背后的生与死〉。《中外对话》。4 月 15

日。

Jenny Chan. 2016. “Examining Contemporary China.” Colloquium. Kellogg College,

University of Oxford. 29 January. (With Pu Yan and David Johnson.)

Jenny Chan. 2015. “China, World Capitalism and Workers’ Resistance.” Chinese Labour

in the Global Economy. 14 May. (With Jane Hardy, Adrian Budd, Tim Pringle, Vincent

Sung and Sally Kincaid.)

潘毅、陈慧玲、马克．塞尔登。2015 年。〈职业教育︰难以出彩的学生制造〉。

《破土》。 5 月 11 日。

Nicki Lisa Cole and Jenny Chan. 2015. “Despite Claims of Progress, Labor Violations

and Environmental Atrocities Continue to Plague Apple’s Supply Chain.” Truthout. 19

Feb.

Jenny Chan. 2014. “A Suicide Survivor: The Life of a Factory Worker Supplying Apple.”

RepRisk Insight: ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) Risk in the Corporate

World, Technology & Electronics. Issue 5 (January): 12-14.

Jenny Chan. 2013. “Who Speaks for China’s Workers?” Labor Notes (USA). May.

Jenny Chan. 2013. “New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers.” Democratic Socialists

of America. October.

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Jenny Chan. 2012. “Biting the Rotten Apple: Taking on Foxconn.” Red Pepper (UK).

August.

Jenny Chan. 2012. “Mobile Phones: Foxconn.” ICON (Design Worth Knowing), No. 106.

2 April.

Jenny Chan. 2011. “iSlave.” Special Issue on China’s Workers. New Internationalist

(UK), Iss. 441, April.

*Best of the Web: Most Read 2011, 3 January 2012.

Jenny Chan. 2011. “Hong Kong Students Find New Ways to Advance Worker Rights in

China.” Maquila Solidarity Update (Canada), Vol. 16, No.1.

Jenny Chan. 2011. “Worker-Based Corporate Social Responsibility.” Pp. 53-54 in “Social

Sustainability Resource Guide: Building Sustainable Communities through Multi-Party

Collaboration.” Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), USA.

Jenny Chan. 2010. “Foxconn: The Global Predator,” Global Dialogue (Magazine of the

International Sociological Association), edited by Michael Burawoy. Vol. 1, Iss. 2.

*Global Dialogue in multiple languages.

陈慧玲。2010。〈富士康︰全球的掠夺者〉。《全球对话——国际社会学通讯》。

Jenny Chan. 2010. “Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant

Workers.” ZNet. 16 September.

Jenny Chan. 2010. “Dying Young.” SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate

Misbehavior).

陳慧玲。2010。〈消逝的生命〉。大學師生監察無良企業行動。

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Research reports

Jenny Chan. 2017. “Betrayed: No Democratic, Representative Trade Union for Foxconn

Workers in China.” SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior),

with support from GoodElectronics and the European Union.

Jenny Chan and Charles Ho. 2008. “The Dark Side of Cyberspace: Inside the Sweatshops

of China’s Computer Hardware Production.” SACOM (Students and Scholars Against

Corporate Misbehavior) and WEED (World Economy, Ecology and Development).

Jenny Chan and Chantal Peyer. 2008. “High Tech, No Rights? A One Year Follow-Up

Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic Hardware Sector.” SACOM

(Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) and Pain pour le Prochain (Bread

for All).

Jenny Chan, Esther de Haan, Sara Nordbrand and Annika Torstensson. 2008. “Silenced to

Deliver: Mobile Phone Manufacturing in China and the Philippines.” makeITfair Series.

SOMO (The Center for Research on Multinational Corporations) and SwedWatch,

Amsterdam and Stockholm.

古學斌、陳錦華、陳慧玲、李偉儀。2003。〈巴基斯坦人在香港的生活經驗研究報

告〉。社會政策研究中心專題研究報告第七號。香港理工大學應用社會科學系社會

政策研究中心、聖公會麥理浩夫人中心。

Hok-bun Ku, Kam-wah Chan, Jenny Chan, and Jo Lee. 2003. “A Research Report on the

Life Experiences of Pakistanis in Hong Kong.” Research Report 7. The Center for Social

Policy Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the S.K.H. Lady MacLehose

Center.

Jackie Yan-chi Kwok and Jenny Chan, eds. 2002. “Participatory Research for the

Designing of Children and Youth Integrated Service Centers.” Research Group on Urban

Space and Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs

Association of Hong Kong.

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Translated articles and chapters

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2015. “Lotte operaie alla Foxconn” (Workers’

Struggles at Foxconn). Pp. 160-79 in Nella Fabbrica Globale: Vite al lavoro e resistenze

operaie nei laboratory della Foxconn, edited by Pun Ngai, et al. Translated in Italian by

Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto. Verona, Italy: Ombre Corte.

Jenny Chan. 2014. “Chi parla per i lavoratori della Cina? (Who Speaks for China’s

Workers?) Translated in Italian by Chongtu. InfoAUT, 23 June.

Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai. 2013. “Lo Stato Cinese, I Sindacati E I Lavoratori Migranti

Rurali” (Chinese State, Unions, and Rural Migrant Workers). Alternative per il

Socialisomo 25 (March-April): 92-101. Translated in Italian by Paola Giaculli.

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2013. “Arbeiterkämpfe bei Foxconn” (Labor

Struggles in Foxconn). Pp. 186-202 in iSlaves: Ausbeutung und Widerstand in China’s

Foxconn Fabriken (iSlaves: Exploitation and Resistance in China’s Foxconn Factory),

edited by Pun Ngai, et al. Translated in German. Vienna: Mandelbaum Kritik & Utopie.

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden. 2013. “Protesty Pracownicze w Foxconnie”

(Worker Protests in Foxconn). Pp. 161-81 in Niewolnicy Apple’a: Wyzysk i opór w

chińskich fabrykach Foxconna (Apple Slaves: Exploitation and Resistance in China’s

Foxconn Factory), edited by Pun Ngai, et al. Translated in Polish. Poland: Bractwo

Trojka.

Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2013. “Global Capital, der Staat, und chinesische Arbeiter: Die

Foxconn Experience” (Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers: The Foxconn

Experience). Translated in German by Georg Egger, Daniel Fuchs, Thomas Immervoll

and Lydia Steinmassl. Pp. 106-29 in Arbeitskämpfe in China: Berichte von der Werkbank

der Welt (Labor Disputes in China: Reports of the Workshop of the World). Wien:

Promedia Verlag.

Sarah Bormann, with Jenny Chan. 2013. “Es ist noch ein langer Weg” (There is Still a

Long Way), pp. 151-54 in Corporate Social Responsibility — Mythen und Maßnahmen

(Corporate Social Responsibility — Myths and Measures), edited by Gisela Burckhardt.

Berlin: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2012. “Global Capital, Lo Stato, e Cinese Lavoratori:

L’esperienza Foxconn” (Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers: The Foxconn

Experience). Translated in Italian by Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto. Pp. 145-74

in Cina, La Società Armoniosa: Sfruttamento e Resistenza Degli Operai Migranti (China,

the Harmonious Society: Exploitation and Resistance of Migrant Workers), Sociologia/

Attualità Internazionale, Milano: Jaca Book.

Pun Ngai, Chris King-Chi Chan, and Jenny Chan. 2012. “Il Ruolo Dello Stato, Politica

Del Lavoro e Lotte dei Lavoratori Migranti in Cina Globalizzata” (The Role of the State,

Labor Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China). Translated in Italian

by Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto. Pp. 101-20 in Cina, La Società Armoniosa:

Sfruttamento e Resistenza Degli Operai Migranti (China, the Harmonious Society:

Exploitation and Resistance of Migrant Workers), Sociologia/ Attualità Internazionale.

Milano: Jaca Book.

Sarah Bormann, with Jenny Chan. 2011. “Elektronik: Es ist noch ein langer Weg –

Interview mit Jenny Chan über Arbeitsrechtstrainings bei HP-Zulieferern in China”

(Electronics: There is Still a Long Way – Interview with Jenny Chan on Employment Law

Training at HP Supplier Factories in China). Pp. 159-63 in Mythos CSR:

Unternehmensverantwortung und Regulierungslücken (CSR Myth: Corporate Social

Responsibility and Regulatory Gaps), edited by Gisela Burckhardt. Berlin: Horlemann

Verlag.

Jenny Chan. 2011. “Estudiantes de Hong Kong Encuentran Nuevas Formas de Promover

los Derechos de los Trabajadores(as) en China” (Hong Kong Students Find New Ways to

Advance Worker Rights in China). Maquila Solidarity Update (Canada), Vol. 16, No.1.

Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai. 2010. “Suizid als Protestform junger chinesischer

WanderarbeiterInnen” (Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant

Workers). Translated in German by Peter Fankhauser. Pp. 1-34. Wien: Südwind Agentur.

Jenny Chan. 2006. “Kein Bleiberecht: Arbeitsmigrantinnen in Südchina.” (No Citizenship

Rights to Stay: Migrant Workers in Southern China.) Frauensolidarität (Solidarity among

Women): A Quarterly Feminist Magazine on Development Issues (Vienna, Austria) 97:

18-19. Translated in German by Doris Maier.

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MEDIA COVERAGE AT THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

Interviewed by Dominic Morgan for CKGSB Knowledge, in “Where are migrant workers

in China moving to?” 27 March 2018 (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business).

Interviewed by Leen Vervaeke for De Groene Amsterdammer, in “Sterven voor een

iPhone,” 24 January 2018.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Apple and Foxconn in the Trump era,” Jenny Chan and

Mark Selden, 3 January 2018.

金融时报, “富士康郑州工厂非法使用学生加班组装 iPhone X,” 2017 年 11 月 22 日

(杨缘)。

Interviewed by Yuan Yang for The Financial Times, in “Apple’s iPhone X assembled by

illegal student labour,” 21 November 2017.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Robots, not humans: Official policy in China,” 21

November 2017.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Jenny Chan reviews ten years of struggles at Foxconn,” 1

November 2017.

Interviewed by Kate Hodal and Peter Bengtsen for The Guardian, in “Chinese factory

supplying major laptop brands accused of student labour abuses,” 6 October 2017.

Interviewed by Wang Yuke for China Daily, in “Expanding tastes and minds,” 15

September 2017.

金融时报,“中国劳工薪资涨幅放缓,” 2017 年 9 月 6 日 (汤姆·汉考克)。

Interviewed by Tom Hancock for The Financial Times, in “China’s migrant workers feel

pinch as Beijing pulls back on wages,” 3 September 2017.

Featured in Psychology Today, “Dumb, Dumber, and Foxconn: Wisconsin taxpayers

bamboozled once again by clueless politicians,” 5 August 2017 (by Richard Maxwell and

Toby Miller).

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Featured in GoodElectronics, “Chinese interns used as cheap labour at assembly lines,” 7

June 2017.

中央社(台灣), “鴻海遭指不當使用實習生 公司這麼回應,” 2017 年 6 月 2 日 (鍾榮

峰)。

Interviewed by Michelle Chen for The Nation, in “Your phone may have been built by an

intern,” 31 May 2017.

Featured in ThoughtCo., “5 superstar women sociologists you should know—And why

they are a big deal,” 26 April 2017 (by Nicki Lisa Cole)

Featured in GoodElectronics, “The limits of corporate self-regulation in protecting

workers’ rights,” 19 April 2017.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Interns in China used as cheap and disposable labor,” 11

April 2017.

Interviewed by Michael Ortner for Wiener Zeitung (Austria), in “Moderne Form von

Sklaverei,” 8 February 2017.

Interviewed by Lena Hallwirth for ORF (Austria), in “Der Preis eines iPhones,” 13

January 2017.

Featured in Young Post, South China Morning Post’s Young Post, “The Apple factory

that’s making workers do up to 140 hours of overtime,” 5 December 2016 (by Ben Pang).

Interviewed by Richelia Yeung for The Young Reporter Magazine, in “Mumtrepreneurs in

Hong Kong: Looking after children and pursuing dreams are no longer incompatible,”

Volume 49, Issue 2, November 2016.

Featured in China Digital Times, “Trails may spell end of era for Chinese labor activism,”

Mark Selden and Jenny Chan, 24 October 2016 (by Samuel Wade).

Interviewed by Aditya Chakrabortty for The Guardian, in “Your New iPhone’s Features

Include Oppression, Inequality—and Vast Profit,” 19 September 2016.

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MEDIA COVERAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Featured in ZDNet (France), in “Shenzhen: des ouvriers coincés entre heures

supplémentaires et robotisation,” 10 May 2016 (by Guillaume Serries).

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Exclusive access to a Shanghai iPhone factory: take a peek

inside,” 26 April 2016.

Interviewed by Shai Oster for Bloomberg, in “Inside one of the world’s most secretive

iPhone factories—An exclusive look into a plant where Apple addressed claims of excess

overtime,” 25 April 2016.

Interviewed by Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay for Le Devoir, in “Les poèmes de la

misère,” 30 December 2015.

Interviewed by Norma J. Martinez for DanWatch, in “Servants of servers,” 5 October

2015.

Interviewed by Robert Foyle Hunwick for GlobalPost, in “Desperate Chinese are turning

to mass suicide to get their government’s attention,” 19 May 2015.

Interviewed by Peter Bengtsen for Le Monde diplomatique, in “The Chinese Dream is a

daydream,” 26 March 2015.

Interviewed by Simone Pieranni for il manifesto, in “La macchina umana,” 17 February

2015.

MEDIA COVERAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

陈慧玲（Jenny Chan），2014 年 4 月 10 日，〈杜克和北卡大学敎堂山分校学生联

手主办‘中国领袖峰会’，百余中外大学生探究‘中国梦’〉，The China Press (僑報．

紐約) (2014 Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit—Chinese Dream: Local Realities and

Global Implications)。

Featured in GoodElectronics, “China’s worker tragedies and the implications for global

public sociology,” Pun Ngai, Shen Yuan, Guo Yuhua, Lu Huilin, Jenny Chan, Mark

Selden, 11 February 2014.

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Interviewed by Aditya Chakrabortty for The Guardian, in “Forced student labour is

central to the Chinese economic miracle,” 14 October 2013.

Interviewed by Aditya Chakrabortty for The Guardian, in “The woman who nearly died

making your iPad,” 5 August 2013.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “From the outside and the inside: Novel strategies to

advance worker rights in China,” 3 March 2011.

Interviewed by Mahesh Sharma for ZDNet, in “Behind the shiny screen,” 13 December

2010.

Interviewed by Kathleen E. McLaughlin for GlobalPost, in “Silicon Sweatshops:

Foxconn still under fire,” 11 October 2010.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Suicide as protest for Chinese migrant workers: Foxconn,

global capital, and the state,” Jenny Chan and Pun Ngai, 15 September 2010.

Interviewed by Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin for GlobalPost, in “Silicon

Sweatshops: A promising model,” 30 May 2010.

Interviewed by Kathleen E. McLaughlin and Jonathan Adams for GlobalPost, in “Special

report: The China connection,” 17 November 2009.

Interviewed by Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin for GlobalPost, in “Special

report: Silicon Sweatshops,” 17 November 2009.

Featured in GoodElectronics, “Labour rights training programmes in China,” 17

November 2009.

Interviewed by John Sexton for China.org.cn, in “New war of the flea: CSR and labor

activism in China,” 22 October 2009.

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PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

2018. “Labor and Technology in China’s Digital Transformation.” The 5th Association for

Asian Studies in Asia (AAS-in-ASIA) Conference, “Asia in Motion: Geographies and

Genealogies,” Ashoka University, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, 5-8 July.

2018. “非正规就业与中国劳工”。中国社会科学院社会学研究所、中国社会科学院

社会发展硏究所、中国社会科学院新闻与传播研究所、中央财经大学。北京。4 月

19-29 日。

2018. “城市化、人口流动与社会工作发展研讨会”。云南大学、香港理工大学。4 月

13-15 日。

2018. “Suicide & Well Being in Chinese Employment.” Research Symposium,

Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 22

March (with Dr. Dimitri Kessler).

2017. “平台经济与劳动市场”。北京大学、清华大学、中国人民大学、中国社会科

学院社会学研究所、中国社会科学院社会发展硏究所、中国社会科学院新闻与传播

研究所、绿色和平。9 月 5-24 日。

2017. “Popular Protest in Contemporary China.” The 4th Association for Asian Studies in

Asia (AAS-in-ASIA) Conference, “Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries,”

Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 24-27 June (with Prof. Mark Selden).

2017. “We the Workers” (凶年之畔), 2017, 174 minutes—Conversation with film director,

Huang Wenhai (黃文海) [Wenhai 聞海] and the host, Dr. Eric Florence, organized by the

French Centre for Research on Contemporary China / Centre d’Etudes Français sur la Chine

Contemporaine (CEFC 法國現代中國研究中心), Consulate General of France in Hong

Kong and Macau, Admiralty, Hong Kong, 19 June.

2017。“职校学媒介素养教育与多媒体能力建设研讨会”。中国社会科学院新闻与传

播研究所媒介传播与青少年发展研究中心、浙江传媒学院媒介素养教育基地、中国

广播电影电视社会组织联合会媒介素养研究培训基地、浙江省媒介素养教育研究会、

浙江传媒学院媒介素养研究所合办。浙江省杭州市。5 月 6-7 日。

2017. “Dying for an iPhone: The Lives of Chinese Workers.” Department of East Asian

Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, 13 January.

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2017. “The Commodification of Labor and the Conditions for Collective Resistance in

China” A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms.

International Conference, Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria, 10-13

January.

2016. “China meets France.” Luncheon organized by the Consulate General of France in

Hong Kong and Macau (法國駐香港及澳門總領事館) and the French Centre for

Research on Contemporary China / Centre d’Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine

(CEFC 法國現代中國研究中心), The China Club, Central, Hong Kong, 16 December.

2016. “Rural China, Global Capitalism, and Social Media: From Production to

Consumption.” Roundtable organized by the French Centre for Research on

Contemporary China / Centre d’Etudes Français sur la Chine Contemporaine (CEFC 法

國現代中國研究中心), Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau (法國駐

香港及澳門總領事館), Admiralty, Hong Kong, 22 November.

2016。“中职教育与社会工作服务。” 江苏省南京市(南京卫生学校)、浙江省杭州市

(浙江工商大学、杭州萧山技师学院)。11 月 18-21 日。

2016。“中职学生的文化、需求与社会工作服务经验研讨会。” 广东省佛山市顺德

区社会服务联会、广东木棉社会工作服务中心职青成长计划合办。佛山市顺德区，

11 月 10-11 日。

2016. “Land, Lodge, and Labor.” The III World Meeting of Popular Movements, and the

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican City and Rome, Italy, 2-5 November.

2016. “Chinese Labor Politics.” Luncheon, Asia-Pacific and East Asia Regional Offices,

Amnesty International Hong Kong (國際特赦組織), Wanchai, Hong Kong, 20 October.

2016. “iSlaves—Living and Working in a Smart World.” Plenary of “Life is No

Algorithm! Collective Perspectives against the Technological Attack” [Leben ist kein

Algorithmus]. Cologne, Germany, 30 September - 2 October.

2016. “Labor in China.” The 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association,

University of Bamberg, Germany, 26-30 September.

2016. “Suicide Voices: Trauma in the Globalized Workplace.” International workshop at

the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London, 14 September.

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2016. “The End of Pragmatic Authoritarianism? New Developments in State-Labour

Relations in China.” LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science) and

SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London, 1-3 September.

2016. “劳务派遣、外包、人力资源服务。” 江苏省丹阳市。8 月 26-28 日。

2016. “Critical Capacities: Media Workers, Labor and Action.” The International

Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Pre-Conference. Curve

Theatre, University of Leicester. 26 July.

2016. “Employment Relations towards 2020 and Beyond: Reflection, Prospects and

Opportunities—Plenary: Current Issues in Chinese Industrial Relations.” The 66th British

Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Annual Conference. The

Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds, the United Kingdom. 29 June – 1 July.

2016. “Migrants, Workplace and Community: Learning from Innovations in Civil

Society.” ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Seminar Series, Center for

Employment Relations Innovation and Change, Leeds University. Leeds Museum,

Millennium Square, Leeds. 23 June.

2016. “Wage Default in China.” Unpaid Britain Typology Workshop, Middlesex

University, London. 9 May.

2016. “Labor Rights in China.” China-Britain Youth Association 中英青年聯合會.

Wadham College, University of Oxford, 5 May.

2016. “Globalization, Work and Labour in Asia: Change and Continuity in a Historical

Perspective.” The 11th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), the

Institute of Social History, University of Valencia, Spain. 30 March – 2 April.

2016. MBA Global Strategy, Case Study. Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. 4

March.

2016. “China and Globalisation.” Guest Lecture, Department of Asian Studies, University

College Cork, Ireland. 25 February.

2016. “Apple, Foxconn and Chinese Workers.” Public Seminar, University College Cork,

Ireland. 25 February.

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2016. “China—New and Old.” Oxfordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes, Kirtlington

Village Hall, Kirtlington, United Kingdom. 23 February.

2016. “Dying for an iPhone.” Social Sciences Seminar, Kellogg College, University of

Oxford. 16 February.

2016. “Dying for an iPhone: Chinese Workers and Student Interns in Apple’s Supply

Chain.” China Research Seminar Series, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge. 3 February.

2015. “Logistic, Global Capitalism, and Labour”, Faculty of Political Science, Università

La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. 27 November.

2015. “Student Interns in China.” Colloquium, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. 18

November.

2015. “New Worlds of Work.” A One-day Special Event on “Critical Labor Studies:

Work, Politics and Austerity,” Conference of Socialist Economists South Group, London.

14 November.

2015. “Globalization and Chinese Labor Studies.” Material Cultures Conference,

University of Exeter. 13 November.

2015. “Researching Global Labour Movements: Where do Digital Methods Fit In?”

Digital Humanities Network, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and

Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. 19 October.

2015. “Challenges in Researching the Shadow Economy,” A Symposium Funded by the

British Academy, Sheffield Town Hall, Sheffield. 8-9 October.

2015. “The Truth behind Apple’s iPad.” Dynamics of Virtual Work. Parnu College,

University of Tartu, Estonia. 16-18 September.

2015. “China’s Student Labor Regime,” International Conference on Labor, Mobility and

Development in PRD (Pearl River Delta) and Beyond, Co-hosted by Department of

Sociology & Universities Service Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong

Kong; Department of Social Work, the Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou; at Chinese

University of Hong Kong. 6-7 June.

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2015。“勞工、流動與發展：珠三角及中國其他地區”國際研討會，香港中文大學社

會學系珠三角社會研究中心、香港中文大學中國研究服務中心及中山大學社會學與

人類學學院社會學與社會工作系合辦，香港中文大學，6 月 6 日至 7 日。

2015. “Apple, Foxconn and China’s New Working Class,” Chinese Studies Seminar,

Center for the China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 5 June.

2015. “Chinese Labor Reforms and Workers’ Rights,” National University of Ireland-

Galway, Summer Class, Kaplan Center, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. 4 June.

2015. “A New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers and its Future.” CHEW (China’s

Health, Environment and Welfare Research Group) Conference on Policy Reforms in

China’s Health, Environment and Welfare, University of Oxford China Center. 8 May.

2015. “Dying for an iPhone.” Co-hosted by China’s Health, Environment and Welfare

(CHEW) Research Group and China-Britain Youth Association (CBYA), University of

Oxford China Center. 12 March.

2015. “China, World Capitalism and Workers’ Resistance.” Day School on China,

International Socialism (a quarterly journal of socialist theory). London. 28 February.

2015. “The Politics of Global Production.” The 4th IMAGINE program series,

Multidisciplinary Research at Sheffield Hallam University. 25 February.

2015. “The Struggle of Chinese Workers.” Center for Communities and Social Justice

Seminar Series, Coventry University. 24 February.

2015. “Suicide Factory, Foxconn and Resistance in Chinese Telecom.” Wadham College,

University of Oxford. 22 February.

2015. “Chinese Workers in Global IT Production.” ICT (Information and

Communications Technologies) and Development Seminar Series. Oxford Internet

Institute, University of Oxford. 3 February.

2015. “World Factory: Considering Consumption.” Symposium, Free Word Hall, London.

13 January.

2014. “Apple Labor.” North London Collegiate School. 4 December.

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2014. “Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs (non-governmental

organizations) in Shaping Technological Futures.” Center for Nanotechnology in Society

(CNS), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA. 13-15 November.

2014. “Chinese Labor Politics in the Global IT Supply Chain.” Seminar hosted by the

Department of Development Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies),

University of London. 21 October.

2014. “Debating the Global Working Class.” Seminar co-hosted by The Conference of

Socialist Economists (CSE) South Group and the Global Economy and Business Research

Unit, University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland. 17 October.

2014. “Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy: Workers Fight Back in China,

Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.” The University of California Santa Barbara

(UCSB) MacArthur Chairs and the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies,

USA. 9 October.

2014. “Dying for an iPhone: The Labour Struggle of China’s New Working Class.” The

Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) Research Seminar, Department

of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Westminster. 1 October.

*Featured in tripleC (Communication, Capitalism & Critique): Journal for a Global

Sustainable Information Society, 2014, Vo1. 12, No. 2.

2014. “Labor Struggles in Global Production.” Conference on Chinese Labor in the

Global Economy: Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance. University of

Nottingham. 11-12 September.

2014. “Student Workers in China.” Conference on “Forms of Labor in Europe and in

China.” University of Padua, Italy. 26-27 June.

2014. “China, Global Supply Chains, and Labor Rights.” MSc. in International

Management, National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. 16-19 April.

2014. “China’s New Generation of Migrant Workers,” Duke-UNC China Leadership

Summit, Duke University and University of North Carolina (UNC), North Carolina, USA.

30 March.

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2014. “Dying for an iPhone: Foxconn, the State, and China’s New Working Class.” Duke

Human Rights Center. The Franklin Humanities Institute. Cosponsored by Marxism &

Society and the Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit, USA. 28 March.

2013. “Class and the New Generation of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers.” Conference on

Class and Social Stratification in China. China Research Center, University of

Technology, Sydney, Australia. 4-5 December.

2013. “Toward Global Corporate Responsibility? Working Life in China.” Manchester

Business School, University of Manchester. 18 July.

2013. “Apple, Foxconn and China’s New Working Class.” Conference on Achieving

Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy. 3-

5 July.

2013. “Student Interns in China.” Symposium on “Global Workers’ Rights: Patterns of

Exclusion, Possibilities for Change,” Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Department of

Labor Studies and Employment Relations, PennsState University, USA. 20-22 March.

2013. “Procure IT Fair: The Role of Institutional Consumers.” Good Electronics and EU

Project Groups. Kings Place, London. 1 February.

2013. “Chinese Workers, Globalization, and Labor Standards.” Museum of Contemporary

Commodities, University of Exeter. 11 January.

2012. “Ending iSlavery: Life, Labor and the New Generation of Chinese Migrant

Workers.” Center for East Asian Studies, School of Sociology, Politics and International

Studies, University of Bristol. 15 November.

2012. “A New Generation of Chinese Workers.” Special Session on China. Ethical

Trading Initiative, London. 20 June.

2012. “Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production

Networks.” Co-organized by Manchester University and Duke University, Buxton. 21

May.

2012. “Outsourcing (to China), Apple’s Business Model.” Centre for Research on Socio-

Cultural Change, Senate House, London. 25 April.

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2012. “Student Interns or Workers?” International Labor Process Conference. Department

of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden. 27-29 March. (with Prof. Chris Smith)

2011. “Made in China – Factories, Migrants, and the Production of Class.” Intersections:

Geography & Planning, Speaker Series 2011, China Panel, Co-Sponsored by the Asian

Institute and the Department of Geography, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of

Toronto, Canada. 27-28 January.

2009. “Workers’ Training in South China.” Ethical Trading Initiative, Norway. 27

October.

2009. “The Future of Workers’ Participation at the Factory Level in China.” Sustainability

Research Group, Stockholm School of Economic, Sweden. 26 October.

2009. “建筑业农民工︰改革开放三十年，沉默的中国脊梁”，清华大学社会学系，

香港理工大学—北京大学社会工作研究中心主办，北京。5 月 14 日。

2008. “Imagining International Solidarity.” China Panel, Centre for Labor Studies, UC

Santa Cruz, USA. 31 January – 2 February.

2007. “GoodElectronics Roundtable: Towards Global e-Responsibility,” Bangkok Rama

Place, Bangkok, Thailand. 15-17 May.

2007. “Gender and Labor Rights in China.” Peuples Solidaries, Paris and Quimper,

France. 11 – 15 March.

2007. “Chinese Women Migrant Workers: Labor NGOs (Non-governmental

organizations) in China.” Bread for All, Switzerland. 8 – 10 March.

2006. “China – Can Global Networks Contribute to Workers’ Rights?” Centre for Labor

Research and Education, UC Berkeley, USA. 10 – 12 June.

2006. “Global Companies – Global Unions, Global Research – Global Campaigns.” The

School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA. 9 – 11 February.

2005. “The Labor Politics of Market Socialism in China.” Hong Kong Sociological

Association Annual Meeting, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 3 December.

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2005. “China.” International Guest Speaker, AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor

and Congress of Industrial Organizations) Convention, the 50th Anniversary, Chicago,

USA. 25 July.

2005. “Tackling the Challenges of Globalization.” Sweatshop Watch, Denver, Colorado,

USA. 8-9 May.

REVIEWING

Capital & Class

China Journal of Social Work

Critical Sociology

Ethnography

Global Labour Journal

Globalizations

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Modern China

Sociologia del lavoro (Sociology of Labour)

The Asia-Pacific Journal

The China Journal

Workers of the World (International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts)

Book Manuscript Reviewer for the “Work, Organization, and Employment” series of

Springer Books

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2018 – Early Career Member, Regional Studies Association

2017 – Academic Member, “Responsible Global Value Chains,” University of

Montpellier, France

2017 – Member, Polytechnic University Staff Association, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University

2016 – Member, Association for Asian Studies

2016 – International Advisory Board Member, Work and Equalities Institute,

Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZING

2017 – 2018 Panel Organizer and Chair, “Labor and Technology in China’s Digital

Transformation,” The 5th Association for Asian Studies in Asia (AAS-in-

ASIA) Conference, “Asia in Motion: Geographies and Genealogies,”

Ashoka University, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, 5-8 July

2017 – 2018 Session Organizer, “China’s Labor in Global Services and Transnational

Production,” International Sociological Association (ISA) World

Congress, Toronto, Canada, 15-21 July 2018 (with Chun-Yi Lee)

2017 – 2018 Session Organizer, “Authors-Meet-Critics,” International Sociological

Association (ISA) World Congress, Toronto, Canada, 15-21 July 2018

(with Ben Scully, Rina Agarwala, and Alexander Gallas)

2016 Panel Convener, “State and Society,” the Fifth Oxford Young Scholars

Conference on Contemporary China, University of Oxford, 23-24 May

2016

2015 – 2016 Conference Organizing Committee Member, “Precarious Work:

Domination and Resistance in the US, China, and the World,” Seattle,

USA. Conference website hosted by the Institute for Research on Labor

and Employment, UCLA, 19 August 2016 (with Chris Tilly and

colleagues)

2013 – 2014 Roundtable Organizer, “Promoting Worker Organizing and Social and

Economic Justice through Activist-Scholar Research Collaborations,”

International Sociological Association’s World Congress, Yokohama,

Japan, 13-19 July 2014

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

2015 – 2017 International Steering Committee Member, “Collective Pay

Determination and Changing Labour Relations in Globalised China,”

The Leverhulme International Network Project, the Leverhulme Trust,

UK (Dr Xuebing Jack Cao)

U.N. POLICY CONSULTING

2009 – 2010 Jenny Chan – Expert Consultant – “The Expert Multi-Stakeholder

Consultation on Closing Governance Gaps: Application of the U.N.

‘Protect, Respect, and Remedy’ Framework,” United Nations office,

Berlin, Germany

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UNIVERSITY SERVICES

2017 – Member of the Sub-committee on “Community, Organization and

Globalisation” Subjects (a Sub-committee of the Academic Planning

and Regulations Committee), Committee on General University

Requirements, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University

2017 – Management Committee Member, China Research and Development

Network, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2015 – 2016 College Invigilator, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

2015 – 2016 College Advisor, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

2015 – 2016 Tutor for Visiting Students, Hertford College, University of Oxford

2014 – 2016 Assessor for the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

2014 – 2016 Convener, China Center Seminar Series, University of Oxford

2014 – 2016 Member, Graduate Joint Consultative Committee, Contemporary China

Studies, University of Oxford

COMMUNITY SERVICES

2017 – Academic Advisor (2017 – present), Electronics Watch [representatives

of civil society organizations from the regions of electronics]

2006 –

Academic Advisor (2009 – present); Chief Coordinator (2006 – 2009)

Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior

2006 –

Member (2009 – present); Steering Group Member (2006 – 2009)

Good Electronics

2003 – Member (2006 – present); Executive Committee Member (2003 – 2006)

The Chinese Working Women Network

2001 – 2003 Executive Committee Member, The Hong Kong Zigen Fund

1997 – 2001 Member, The Association for the Advancement of Feminism

TEACHING

Undergraduate & Postgraduate Level (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Global China (Subject Coordinator)

Contemporary Chinese Society and Popular Culture (Subject Coordinator)

Supervision of Research Degree Student

Introduction to Sociology

Research for Policy and Administration—Seminar

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Graduate Level (University of Oxford)

The Study of Contemporary China

China’s Economic Reform

Qualitative Research Methods

Dissertation Research Seminar

International Student Exchange Program (Hertford College, University of Oxford)

The Sociology of China

AUDIO-VISUAL TEACHING MATERIALS

Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 2016

Why Choose Kellogg College?

Dr Jenny Chan, Junior Research Fellow, Kellogg College & Lecturer of Sociology and

China Studies, Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford

edX, Harvard and MIT: MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), 2014

Global Sociology

Instructor: Smitha Radhakrishnan

Interviewee: Jenny Chan

Good Electronics, 2007

Connects and empowers organizations and individuals working to improve human rights

in the global electronics supply chain

Jenny Chan, SACOM, Hong Kong, China

DISSERTATION SUPERVISING

PhD / Visiting PhD Candidates

1. Liqi Hou (PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University), 2017-present

2. Ken Yau (PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University), 2017-present

3. Sun Ping, Sophie (PhD Candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, The

Chinese University of Hong Kong), Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, 2015-16

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4. Chen Kangling (PhD Candidate, School of International Relations and Public Affairs,

Fudan University), Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area

Studies, University of Oxford, 2014-15

5. Shen Lifan, Witt (PhD Candidate, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University),

Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of

Oxford, 2014-15

MSc and MPhil Candidates

1. Rowan Alcock (MPhil Candidate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford),

2014-16

2. Jessica Shen Cheng (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

3. Emily Y. Gong (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

4. Xian Guan (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

5. Yuan Ma (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary

Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

6. Xiaochu Wu (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

7. Tingting Xu (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

8. Louis Hendrix (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2015-16

9. Jonas A. Irekvist (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2014-15

10. Owen Yu Song (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2014-15

11. Stephanie Chen Zou (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2014-15

12. Lily Li Zhang (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2014-15

13. Elizabeth Shen (MSc Candidate, Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford), 2014-15

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UNIVERSITY EXAMINING

PhD/DPhil Candidates

1. Ma Xinrong (PhD Candidate, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University),

“Entrapment by Consent”: the Co-ethnic Brokerage System among Ethnic Yi Labour

Migrants in China (198 pp.), PhD thesis reader’s report, 23 November 2017

2. Xu Siyuan (PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong

Polytechnic University), Confirmation of PhD Status, 2016-17

3. Lam Bik Che, Phoebe (PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The

Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Confirmation of PhD Status, 2016-17

4. Jun Han (DPhil Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford),

Confirmation of PhD Status and Examiner of PhD dissertation, 2014-16

5. Xiaojun Feng (DPhil Candidate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford),

Confirmation of PhD Status, 2015-16

6. Bo Ærenlund Sørensen (DPhil Candidate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of

Oxford), Confirmation of PhD Status, 2015-16

COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENTAL SUPERVISING

1. Dr Hongmei Wu (Associate Professor, Human Resources and Social Security,

Nanjing Agricultural University, China), Contemporary China Studies, School of

Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, 2015-16

2. Millie Stone (MSc Candidate, Creative Writing, University of Oxford), 2015-16

3. Yifan Wang (BA Student, Philosophy, Vassar College, USA), University of Oxford,

2015-16

4. Teddy Man Kin Chow (BA Student, International Relations and Affairs, Princeton

University, USA), University of Oxford, 2015-16

5. Enid Still (MSc Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Oxford), 2015-16

6. Katie Howard (MSc Candidate, Learning and Teaching, University of Oxford), 2015-

16

7. Christopher Kennedy (MSt Candidate, History of Design, University of Oxford),

2015-16

8. Naomi Reid-Evans (MSt Candidate, History of Design, University of Oxford), 2015-

16

9. Karen Price (MSt Candidate, History of Design, University of Oxford), 2015-16

10. Swagata Raha (MSt Candidate, International Human Rights Law, University of

Oxford), 2015-16

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11. Dakshinie Gunaratne (MSt Candidate, International Human Rights Law, University

of Oxford), 2015-16

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chaozhou) and English