Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 188

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

The politics of global production:Apple,Foxconn andChina's new working class

Chan, Jenny, Pun, Ngai, Selden, Mark·2013·New Technology, Work and Employment
DOI 10.1111/ntwe.12008
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Apple's commercial triumph rests in part on the outsourcing of its consumer electronics production to A sia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at C hina's leading exporter—the T aiwanese‐owned F oxconn—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 A pple 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 C hinese 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.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/ntwe.12008

Cites

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

No references could be resolved yet.

Research works printed but not linked: 66

  1. 10.1179/102452908X264539 · DOI
  2. Arrighi G., 2009, China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism, 22
  3. 10.1179/102452905X45382 · DOI · Paper page
  4. Bloomberg(2012) ‘Apple Profit Margins Rise at Foxconn's Expense.’ 5 January.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012‐01‐04/apple‐profit‐margins‐rise‐at‐foxconn‐s‐expense.html(accessed 6 January 2012). · DOI
  5. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.003.0008 · DOI
  6. 10.1080/14672715.2012.711978 · DOI
  7. Carrillo B., 2012, China's Peasants and Workers
  8. 10.7591/9780801462672 · DOI
  9. 10.1111/ntwe.12007 · DOI · Paper page
  10. 10.1215/18752160-1465833 · DOI
  11. Chu Y., 2010, Chinese Capitalisms, 10.1057/9780230251359 · DOI
  12. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.003.0012 · DOI
  13. Deyo F.C., 1989, Beneath the Miracle, 10.1525/9780520326392 · DOI
  14. 10.1515/9781400821723 · DOI · Paper page
  15. 10.15173/glj.v1i3.1082 · DOI
  16. 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00814.x · DOI · Paper page
  17. 10.1080/09692290500049805 · DOI · Paper page
  18. Gereffi G., 1994, Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
  19. 10.1017/S0305741004000190 · DOI
  20. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.003.0007 · DOI
  21. Hamilton G.G., 2011, The Market Makers, 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.001.0001 · DOI
  22. Harrison B., 1997, Lean and Mean
  23. Harvey D., 2010, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
  24. 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2011.00326.x · DOI
  25. Huang Y., 2003, Selling China
  26. Hui E.S., 2012, Industrial Democracy in China, 103
  27. Hung H., 2009, China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism, 10.56021/9780801893070 · DOI
  28. 10.7591/9781501731778 · DOI
  29. Ku Y., 2006, Challenging the Chip, 181
  30. Kuruvilla S., 2011, From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, 10.7591/cornell/9780801450242.001.0001 · DOI
  31. Lashinsky A., 2012, Inside Apple
  32. Lee C.K., 2007, Against the Law, 10.1525/9780520940642 · DOI · Paper page
  33. Lee C.K., 2010, Chinese Society, 57
  34. Lee J.andG.Gereffi(2013) ‘The Co‐Evolution of Concentration in Mobile Phone Value Chains and its Impact on Social Upgrading in Developing Countries.’ Capturing the Gains Working Paper 25.http://www.capturingthegains.org/pdf/ctg‐wp‐2013‐25.pdf(accessed 1 April 2013). · DOI
  35. 10.2307/20065992 · DOI
  36. Lichtenstein N., 2009, The Retail Revolution
  37. Lüthje B., 2006, Challenging the Chip, 17
  38. Marx K., 2002, The Communist Manifesto
  39. McKay S.C., 2006, Satanic Mills Or Silicon Islands?, 10.7591/9781501728730 · DOI
  40. 10.1017/S0305741004000244 · DOI
  41. 10.1080/10670561003666079 · DOI
  42. 10.1353/book1369 · DOI
  43. Perry E.J., 2002, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
  44. 10.1215/00382876-1891323 · DOI
  45. Pun N., 2010, The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers' Struggles in Globalized China, Global Labour Journal, 1, 132
  46. 10.1215/00382876-1891332 · DOI
  47. 10.1177/0097700410373576 · DOI · Paper page
  48. 10.7551/mitpress/9780262170062.001.0001 · DOI · Paper page
  49. Ross A., 2006, Fast Boat to China
  50. Segal A., 2003, Digital Dragon
  51. Selden M., 1997, Network Power, 306
  52. Selden M., 2010, Chinese Society, 1
  53. Selden M., 2011, The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs, The Asia‐Pacific Journal, 9, 1
  54. 10.1017/CBO9780511615702 · DOI · Paper page
  55. Silver B.J., 2009, China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism, 174
  56. Smith T., 2006, Challenging the Chip
  57. Solinger D.J., 1999, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China, 10.1525/9780520922617 · DOI · Paper page
  58. Solinger D.J., 2009, States' Gains, Labor's Losses
  59. 10.1080/13563460903288197 · DOI
  60. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.003.0009 · DOI
  61. 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00567.x · DOI
  62. 10.1179/1024529412Z.00000000028 · DOI
  63. Traub‐Merz R., 2012, Industrial Democracy in China, 11
  64. 10.1002/9781444303018 · DOI
  65. 10.1086/210397 · DOI · Paper page
  66. Zhou Y., 2008, The Inside Story of China's Hi‐Tech Industry

Cited by

See all 188

Metadata

Authors
Chan, J., Pun, N., & Selden, M.
Venue
New Technology, Work and Employment
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-07
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
100-115
ISSN
  • 0268-1072
  • 1468-005X
DOI
10.1111/ntwe.12008
Cited by
188
References
0
Language
en
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 17 d)

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The politics of global production:Apple,Foxconn andChina's new working class. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/ntwe.12008
The paper
Chan, J., Pun, N., & Selden, M. (2013). The politics of global production:Apple,Foxconn andChina's new working class. New Technology, Work and Employment. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12008

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.