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Article: The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class
Title | The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class |
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Keywords | Consumer electronics manufacturing Collective actions China Apple Outsourcing Labour Global supply chains Foxconn |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Citation | New Technology, Work and Employment, 2013, v. 28, n. 2, p. 100-115 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Apple's commercial triumph rests in part on the outsourcing of its consumer electronics production to Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at China's leading exporter-the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn-the power dynamics of the buyer-driven supply chain are analysed in the context of the national terrains that mediate or even accentuate global pressures. Power asymmetries assure the dominance of Apple in price setting and the timing of product delivery, resulting in intense pressures and illegal overtime for workers. Responding to the high-pressure production regime, the young generation of Chinese rural migrant workers engages in a crescendo of individual and collective struggles to define their rights and defend their dignity in the face of combined corporate and state power. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240732 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.009 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, Jenny | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pun, Ngai | - |
dc.contributor.author | Selden, Mark | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-12T01:46:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-12T01:46:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | New Technology, Work and Employment, 2013, v. 28, n. 2, p. 100-115 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0268-1072 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240732 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Apple's commercial triumph rests in part on the outsourcing of its consumer electronics production to Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at China's leading exporter-the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn-the power dynamics of the buyer-driven supply chain are analysed in the context of the national terrains that mediate or even accentuate global pressures. Power asymmetries assure the dominance of Apple in price setting and the timing of product delivery, resulting in intense pressures and illegal overtime for workers. Responding to the high-pressure production regime, the young generation of Chinese rural migrant workers engages in a crescendo of individual and collective struggles to define their rights and defend their dignity in the face of combined corporate and state power. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | New Technology, Work and Employment | - |
dc.subject | Consumer electronics manufacturing | - |
dc.subject | Collective actions | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Apple | - |
dc.subject | Outsourcing | - |
dc.subject | Labour | - |
dc.subject | Global supply chains | - |
dc.subject | Foxconn | - |
dc.title | The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ntwe.12008 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84880611642 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 28 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 100 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 115 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1468-005X | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000321981500003 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0268-1072 | - |