Your smartphone kills workers in China
This open seminar – which mixes state-of–the–art research and insights from China's factory floors with readings of workers’ – is concerned with the lives of workers in China and discusses how consumers in Denmark may relate to the life of people who produce our smartphones.
Your smartphone and many of your household items are produced in China. We all know this and we know that it is a consequence of globalisation - of companies from the global North, including Denmark, moving their production to China. We've come to know China as 'the factory of the world'.
But few are aware of the staggering numbers of workers employed in this factory – more than 270 million people! That equals half the population of the EU. We know even less about their working conditions, their life aspirations, sorrows and joys. Nevertheless, we carry around and use the products that they produce on a daily basis.
This seminar – which mixes state-of–the–art research and insights from China's factory floors with readings of workers’ – is concerned with the lives of workers in China and discusses how consumers in Denmark may relate to the life of people who produce our smartphones.
The seminar is free and open to the public. For logistical purposes, however, registration is required.
Register for ‘Your smartphone kills workers in China’ (deadline: 15 June 2016).
Please direct your questions to Martin Bech, phone 51 30 25 57).