Comments on: Now That You Know When The iPhone 5 Is Shipping, Listen To Leslie T. Chang Talk About The People Behind The Products http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/leslie-t-chang-the-voices-of-chinas-workers/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: name http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/leslie-t-chang-the-voices-of-chinas-workers/#comment-46490 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:49:49 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=5227#comment-46490 sorry, but she’s not awesome. she did a great job by listening and conveying the voices of these workers. but the bottom line of her speech is purely conservative, market liberism. if these workers “choose” to do what they do, as she says, if they have the projects and aims she describes, why so many of them suicide, as she reminds us at the beginning of her speech? how to accomodate her narrative of individual agency, personal choice, and self-improvement with facts that reflect physical and psychological annihilation? this is the hard, difficult question that is there, right in front of her, but she refuses to answer.

]]> By: The Good Doctor http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/leslie-t-chang-the-voices-of-chinas-workers/#comment-44515 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:50:17 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=5227#comment-44515 why would i go to your website to read more of your lies? no thanks.

]]> By: Mike Daisey http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/leslie-t-chang-the-voices-of-chinas-workers/#comment-43916 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:22:52 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=5227#comment-43916 Leslie did write something for the New Yorker during the scandal.

And while I think she does great work, she’s startlingly naive about coporatism. My quick response is here:

http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/09/leslie-chang-does-important-work-but.html

]]> By: Jess http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/leslie-t-chang-the-voices-of-chinas-workers/#comment-43301 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:32 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=5227#comment-43301 Hum. You know, I never really expected her to look like that.

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