{"product_id":"goodbye-islave-9780252082122","title":"Goodbye iSlave","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who has used a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, e-reader, video game console, or smart speaker would do well to read \u003ci\u003eGoodbye iSlave\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eboundary 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eSouthern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNetworking China\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eInformation, Communication \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Outstanding and well-researched. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers from media and information studies, sociology, history and many other social sciences disciplines will find Goodbye iSlave illuminating.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe China Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003ePoLAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Social Movement Media\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036848128343,"sku":"9780252082122","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252082122.jpg?v=1750932743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/goodbye-islave-9780252082122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}