Abstract: What is the world factory like under the conditions of digital capitalism? How is it different from, and similar to, capitalist world-systems of the past? In this era of Internet and smart phones, can workers form their own networks and resist the logic of capital? From a global and long duré perspective, this article first reviews the “transAtlantic triangular trade” slavery system of the 17th century. It then examines a new triangular trade structure of 21stcentury slavery, of which Foxconn is a key component. Despite the four centuries in between, there are plenty of parallels between the two systems’ empirical specificities as well as their structural characteristics. A new solidarity system is then proposed to account for networked labor resistance. It is argued that such a retrospective exercise sheds new light on imaginations of future world systems, now rehistoricized; that new technologies sometimes bring social regression instead of progression; and that labor studies need to broaden its analytical scope to the world system, beyond individual enterprise, sector, and country, which is made imperative by conditions of digital capitalism fusing production and consumption, as can be seen most clearly in the cyberspace.

Key words: iSlave, Foxconn, digital capitalism, networked labor resistance