Author: Jenny Chan
Alternate names: Dr Jenny CHAN
Bio: Jenny Chan (Ph.D. 2014) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and China Studies in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also a Member of the Sub-committee on “Community, Organization and Globalisation” Subjects, and a Management Committee Member of China and Global Development Network. She serves as the Vice President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2023). Her first book is Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers (co-authored with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai). She co-edited a 2019 special issue of Critical Sociology entitled, “Precarization and Labor Resistance” (with Chris Rhomberg and Manjusha Nair).-Haymarket Books