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Jenny Chan 陳慧玲 CV

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Jenny Chan 陳慧玲

BSSc (CUHK), MPhil (HKU), PhD (London)

University of Oxford

School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Contemporary China Studies ǀ Kellogg College

Tel: +44 (0)1865 613855

Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Address: University of Oxford, China Centre, Canterbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6LU

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Labor, Political Economy, State, Global Capitalism, Ethnography, China

EMPLOYMENT

2014 – Lecturer, Contemporary Chinese 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

2006 – 2009 Chief Coordinator, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior,

Hong Kong

2003 – 2006 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong

EDUCATION

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

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

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

Certificate English, The Oxford English Center, Oxford, United Kingdom

EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2015 – Editor, Global Labour Journal

2015 – Contributing Editor, The Asia-Pacific Journal

2015 – Editorial Board Member, Work, Organization, and Employment (Springer

Book Series)

2014 – 2018 Board Member, International Sociological Association

Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44)

REVIEWER FOR Capital & Class, Modern China, Global Labour Journal,

Globalizations, Historical Materialism, The Asia-Pacific Journal

mailto:[email protected]


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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

Principal

Investigator

2016 The John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund

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

[£6,507] Ref 152/015

Date of Award: 9/3/2016

Start date: 30/3/2016, five months

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

Date of Award: 5/5/2015 [College research membership]

Start date: 1/10/2015, three years

2014 – 2016 Research Grants, Contemporary China Studies, School of Interdisciplinary

Area Studies, University of Oxford [£2,800]

Start date: 1/9/2014, two years

2013 The Great Britain-China Educational Award, The Great-Britain China

Educational Trust, London [£2,000]

Date of Award: 8/5/2013

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

University of London [£49,920]


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

College, University of London [£19,500]


Research

Associate

2016 – 2018 The Leverhulme Trust, International Network Grant, “Collective Pay

Determination and Changing Labour Relations in Globalised China”

Principal Investigator: Jack Xuebing Cao (Keele University) [£106,040]

2016 The Wellcome Trust, A Seed Award in Medical Humanities/Society and

Ethics, “Suicide Voices: Narratives of Trauma in the Globalised Workplace”

Principal Investigator: Sarah Waters (University of Leeds) [£46,398]

2015 – 2016 The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Rising Star

Engagement Award, “Challenges in Researching the Shadow Economy”

Principal Investigator: Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield)

[£12,499]


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PUBLICATIONS

Writing in English and (simplified/traditional) Chinese.

Translated in Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish, and other languages.

Books

Ngai Pun, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. (Forthcoming in 2016). Dying for an iPhone:

The Lives of Chinese Migrant Workers. A Book Series Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry.

Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield.

潘毅、陈慧玲、马克．塞尔登。2016。《苹果背后的富士康工人》。刘昕亭译。

北京︰社会科学文献出版社。

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

Ngai Pun, 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

Ngai Pun, 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

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

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.

http://agone.org/centmillesignes

http://agone.org/centmillesignes


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Journal articles

Jenny Chan. (In progress). “Precarious Work in China.” Rural China: An International

Journal of History and Social Science.

Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. (Forthcoming). “The Labour Politics of China’s Rural

Migrant Workers.” Globalizations.

Ngai Pun, Yuan Shen, Yuhua Guo, Huilin Lu, Jenny Chan and Mark Selden. (In Press).

“Apple, Foxconn and Chinese Workers’ Struggles in Global Labor Perspective.” Inter-Asia

Cultural Studies.

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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.

*Nominated for the Russo & Linkon Award, the Working-Class Studies Association.

*2015. The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 36, No. 1, September 7.

*2016. 陈慧玲、潘毅、马克．塞尔登.〈实习生或是工人？中国的学生工体制〉.

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.

*2016. 陈慧玲、马克．塞尔登.〈中国农民工、国家与劳工政治〉.

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

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

Sociology 62(2): 209-22.

*2014. The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 11, No. 3, March 17.

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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.


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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.

Ngai Pun 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.

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

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

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

Migrant Workers.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 18, Iss. 37, No. 2.

*2010. 陈慧玲、潘毅.〈自杀或是他杀？跨国资本在中国的扩张及其对工人的影

响〉.

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

Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China.” Global Labor Journal 1(1):

132-51.

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

Contract Law.” New Labor Forum 18(2): 43-51.

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

Forum 15(1): 19-27.

Book chapters

Jenny Chan. (In progress). “Labor Market and Informal Employment.” Handbook on

Contemporary China, edited by Weiping Wu and Mark Frazier. Thousand Oaks, CA:

SAGE.

Chan, Jenny. (In progress). “Student Workers in China.” Understanding the Global

Business of Forced Labour, edited by Genevieve LaBaron. Proceedings of the British

Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chan, Jenny. (In progress). “Interning for High-Tech Manufacturing in China.”

Democratizing Technologies. Edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Richard Appelbaum,

Cassandra Engeman and Shirley Han.


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Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “Contemporary Chinese Labor History.” On the Road to

Global Labor History, edited by Karl Heinz Roth. The Historical Materialism Book Series.

Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local

Resistance.” The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements,

edited by Andrew Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter Funke. Philadelphia: Temple

University Press.

Tony Dundon and Jenny Chan. (Forthcoming). “Fire Fighting HRM in China’s New

Global Economy.” Contemporary Human Resource Management: Texts and Cases, edited

by Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, and Tony Dundon. 5th

Ed. Harlow, England: Pearson

Education.

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

(Forthcoming). “Worker-Intellectual Unity.” Precarious Engagements, edited by Michael

Burawoy. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun and Mark Selden. (Forthcoming). “Apple, Foxconn, and China’s

New Working Class.” Ch. 9 in Making Blue the Next Green—Achieving Workers’ Rights

in the Global Economy, edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein. Ithaca,

NY: Cornell University Press.

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

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

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

University Press.

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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 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.


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Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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, Ngai Pun 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。

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.

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。

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

Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China.” Pp. 45-83 in Globalization

and Labor 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》。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

Rina Agarwala, Jenny Chan, Alexander Gallas and Ben Scully. 2016. “Editors’

Introduction.” Global Labour Journal (January) 7(1): 1-2.


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Rina Agarwala, Jenny Chan, Alexander Gallas and Ben Scully. 2015. “Editors’

Introduction.” Global Labour Journal (January) 6(1): 1-3.

Magazine articles and blogposts

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun and Mark Selden. (Forthcoming). “Dying for an iPhone: The Lives

of Chinese Workers.” China Dialogue 中外对话.

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.)

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.

*GoodElectronics / Talking Union / Labor Notes / Alternet / Open Democracy

(Beyond Trafficking and Slavery) / Work in Progress (Blog of the American

Sociological Association’s “Organizations, Occupations and Work Section”) / ITUC

(International Trade Union Confederation)

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.

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.


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

Iss. 441, April.

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, USA.

Jenny Chan. 2010. “Foxconn: The Global Predator,” Global Dialogue (Newsletter for the

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

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. “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。

Jenny Chan. 2005. “Chinese Migrant Workers in Action: Brining Wal-Mart to Global

Corporate Responsibility.” Social Policy 36(1): 32-36.

Ngai Pun and Jenny Chan. 2004. “Community-Based Labor Organizing.” A Special Issue

on Trade Union Rights in China. International Union Rights 14(4): 10-11.

Research reports

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).


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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), the Netherlands.

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.

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。

Kwok, Jackie Yan-chi 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.

Translated academic articles and book chapters

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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 Ngai Pun 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 Ngai Pun. 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.

Ngai Pun 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.

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Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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 Ngai Pun et al. Translated in German. Vienna: Mandelbaum Kritik & Utopie.

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun 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 Ngai Pun et al. Translated in Polish. Poland: Bractwo Trojka.

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.

Ngai Pun 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.

Ngai Pun, 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.


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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. 2010. “Foxconn: Le Prédateur Global” (Foxconn: The Global Predator),

Global Dialogue (Newsletter for the International Sociological Association), edited by

Michael Burawoy. Vol. 1, Iss. 2. Translated in French.

Jenny Chan. 2010. “Foxconn: El Depredador Global” (Foxconn: The Global Predator),

Global Dialogue (Newsletter for the International Sociological Association), edited by

Michael Burawoy. Vol. 1, Iss. 2. Translated in Spanish.

Jenny Chan and Ngai Pun. 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.

U.N. PUBLIC POLICY CONSULTING

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.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZING

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

and Resistance in the US, China, and the World,” August 2016, Seattle, USA.

Conference website hosted by the Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment, UCLA.

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

Economic Justice through Activist-Scholar Research Collaborations,”

International Sociological Association’s World Congress, July 2014,

Yokohama, Japan.


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UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

2016 – College Invigilator, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

2015 – College Advisor, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

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

2015 – Member, Graduate Joint Consultative Committee, University of Oxford

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

2010 – Advisor, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, Hong Kong

2003 – 2007 Secretary, The Chinese Working Women Network, Hong Kong

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

TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

EdX, Harvard and MIT: Introduction to Global Sociology

University of Oxford International Student Exchange Program

The Sociology of China

Undergraduate Level

Introduction to Sociology

Social Policy and Social Change

The Hong Kong Society

The Political Economy of Contemporary China

Graduate Level

The Study of Contemporary China

Qualitative Research Methods

China’s Economic Reform

MSc Dissertation Research Seminar

MSc Chinese Intermediate Reading for Social Scientists (Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Modern China (Faculty of Oriental Studies)

MEDIA COVERAGE AT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Interviewed on Le Devoir on Chinese migrant workers’ lives, 30 December 2015 (by

Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay).


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Interviewed on DanWatch on student interns and global IT supply chains, 5 October 2015

(by Norma J. Martinez).

2015 年 5 月 11 日〈职业教育︰难以出彩的学生制造〉(潘毅、陈慧玲、马克．塞尔

登)，破土。

*2015 年 6 月 29 日，立場新聞。

Interviewed on Global Post on Chinese mass suicides and government responses, 19 May

2015 (by Robert Foyle Hunwick).

*2015 年 5 月 22 日，〈绝望的中国人转向集体自杀抗议〉，博谈网。

Interviewed on Le Monde diplomatique on “The Chinese Dream” and class inequality, 26

March 2015 (by Peter Bengtsen).

Interviewed on iI Manifesto on “Made in China” and “The Human Machine” (La

macchina umana), 18 February 2015 (by Simone Pieranni).

Interviewed on Sociology.about.com on “5 Superstar Women Sociologists You Should

Know; And Why They Are a Big Deal,” 1 December 2014 (by Nicki Lisa Cole).

Interviewed on tripleC (Communication, Capitalism & Critique): Journal for a Global

Sustainable Information Society on the labor struggle of China’s New Working Class,

2014 Vo1. 12, No. 2 (by Christian Fuchs).

MEDIA COVERAGE AT UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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)。

Interviewed on The Guardian on a forced student labor system in China’s global factory,

14 October 2013 (by Aditya Chakrabortty).

Interviewed on The Guardian on a Foxconn suicide survivor in Apple’s supply chain, 5

August 2013 (by Aditya Chakrabortty).

Interviewed on Global Post on “Silicon Sweatshops” of China’s IT Industry, 30 May 2010

(by Kathleen E. McLaughlin and Jonathan Adams).


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Interviewed on Global Post on corporate social responsibility in China, 17 November

2009 (by Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin).

Interviewed on China.org.cn on corporate social responsibility and labor activism in

China, 22 October 2009 (by John Sexton).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

2016. “The Labor Politics of China.” Industrial Relations, Leeds University Business

School, Leeds. 13 October.

2016. “Suicide Voices: Narratives of Trauma in the Globalised Workplace.” A One-Day

International Workshop. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the WHO

Regional Office for Europe, London. 14 September.

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

Relations in China.” SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and LSE (The

London School of Economics and Political Science). 1-2 September.

2016. “Precarious Work and Labor Politics in the US, China, and the World.” Global Labor

Conference, Seattle, USA. 19 August.

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

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

Theatre, University of Leicester, Leicester. 26 July.

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

Opportunities.” The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA). The

Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds. 29 June – 1 July.

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

Society.” ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Seminar Series, University of

Leeds. 23 June.

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.


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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.

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. “Cross-Border Student Activism.” 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.


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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.

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, hosted

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

2015. “Dying for an iPhone: The Politics of Global Production.” The 4th

IMAGINE

program series, Multidisciplinary Research at Sheffield Hallam University. 25 February.

2015. “Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden 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.” Old Refectory,

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.


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

13 January.

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

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

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

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). 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. 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.

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.


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

Leadership Summit, Duke University and University of North Carolina, North Carolina,

USA. 30 March.

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. 20-22 March.

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

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.


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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.

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

of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden. 27-29 March.

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, 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。

2009. “农民工与农民工社区网络和行动”，中山大学华南农村研究中心，香港理工大

学—北京大学社会工作研究中心主办，广州。1月12-18日。

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

Santa Cruz. 31 January – 2 February.

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. 10 – 12 June.


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

School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. 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.

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

and Congress of Industrial Organizations) Convention, the 50th

Anniversary, Chicago. 25

July.

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

8-9 May.

UNIVERSITY EXAMINING AND DISSERTATION SUPERVISING

PhD, MPhil, and MSc Candidates, University of Oxford (2014-present).

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD WEBSITES

ORCID Jenny Chan (0000-0002-4980-4048)

CONTEMPORARY CHINA STUDIES Jenny Chan

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chaozhou), English

References available upon request.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4980-4048

http://www.ccsp.ox.ac.uk/dr-jenny-chan

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