Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era

TripleC

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 564-581

  Qiu, Jack Linchuan ^a   Gregg, Melissa ^b   Crawford, Kate ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

circuit of culture; Foxconn; iPhone; labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040906717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v12i2.540     Document Type: Article

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