Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition
Jack Linchuan Qiu
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Description for Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition
Hardback. Series: Geopolitics of Information. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JPV; KJG; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls. Gathered into mammoth factory complexes and terrified into obedience, these workers feed the world's addiction to iPhones and other commodities--a generation of iSlaves trapped in a global economic system that relies upon and studiously ignores their oppression.
Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls. Gathered into mammoth factory complexes and terrified into obedience, these workers feed the world's addiction to iPhones and other commodities--a generation of iSlaves trapped in a global economic system that relies upon and studiously ignores their oppression.
Focusing on the alliance between Apple and the notorious Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, Jack Linchuan Qiu examines how corporations and governments everywhere collude to build systems of domination, exploitation, and alienation. His interviews, news analysis, and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Geopolitics of Information
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040627
SKU
V9780252040627
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1
About Jack Linchuan Qiu
Jack Linchuan Qiu is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China.
Reviews for Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition
"Anyone who has used a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, e-reader, video game console, or smart speaker would do well to read Goodbye iSlave. In tight effective prose, Qiu presents a gripping portrait of the lives of Foxconn workers and this description is made more confrontational by the uncompromising language Qiu deploys."
boundary 2 "Qiu's grim and eloquent book traces ... Read more
boundary 2 "Qiu's grim and eloquent book traces ... Read more