This year's Joseph Levenson Book Prize goes to the 2021 work making "the greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics, or economy of China."
Building China: The rise of informal precarious work in China’s construction industry
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Sarah Swider from Wayne State on the migrants in precarious work in China's construction industry.
Dr. Sarah Swider received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2008. Some of her research interests are: gender, global inequality and immigration, social movements, and asian studies. She does extensive ethnographic research on migrant workers in China and the "precarious" nature of their work. She is currently working on a book that will detail the experience of these Chinese workers. Dr. Swider typically teaches courses on social inequalities, qualitative methods, sociological theory, and urban & labor studies. She also works with the Confucius Institute at Wayne State.
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Join us for a discussion with Mike Chinoy on his new book that expands on USCI's Assignment: China series.