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Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 parallels between the digital economy and Atlantic slavery--from Congo mines to Foxconn sweatshops to iPhone users' labor. Full of insights, Goodbye iSlave also offers hope, in new forms of social struggle."--Raewyn Connell, author of
Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science "
Networking China is highly recommended for researchers or students in the area of media and communications, economics, political sciences and Chinese studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in communication sectors." --
Information, Communication & Society"Outstanding and well-researched. . . . Highly recommended."--
Choice"Readers from media and information studies, sociology, history and many other social sciences disciplines will find Goodbye iSlave illuminating." --
The China Quarterly"Qiu's book brings attention to the hidden and deeply exploitative conditions of digital labor that make possible our world of new media and technologies." --
PoLAR"This remarkable dissection of twenty-first century global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu's on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens--and examples of what to do next."--John D.H. Downing, editor of the
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
