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Faculty Publications - International and Comparative Labor
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Choosing Rights: Nissan in Canton, Mississippi, and Workers’ Freedom of Association under International Human Rights Standards
(2013-10)[Excerpt] This Report chronicles Nissan’s aggressive anti-union tactics. These include mandatory “captive audience” meetings, individual sessions with supervisors, closed-circuit television presentations, surveillance, and ... -
Book Review: L’organisation international du travail et le BIT
(University of Illinois College of Law, 2022)[Excerpt] The re-issuance of Georges Scelle’s seminal L’organisation international du travail et le BIT (The International Labor Organization and the International Labor Office) nearly a century after its initial publication ... -
Teachers’ Work in China’s Migrant Schools
(SAGE, 2017-11)In recent years, scholars have begun to document the emergence of private migrant schools in urban China. However, neither education nor labor scholars have empirically investigated teachers’ work. Because it is precisely ... -
Just-in-Time Urbanization? Managing Migration, Citizenship, and Schooling in the Chinese City
(SAGE, 2018-05)In this article I argue that the Chinese state is responding to tensions wrought by high-speed growth by attempting to develop a form of technocratic biopolitics I refer to as ‘just-in-time (JIT) urbanization’. Mirroring ... -
Regimes, Resistance and Reforms: Comparing Workers' Politics in the Automobile Industry in China and India
(McMaster University Library Press, 2021-01)The automobile industry in China was shaken by an unprecedented upsurge of labour unrest in 2010, beginning with the much-discussed wildcat strike at the Nanhai Honda transmission plant in Guangdong province. While worker ... -
Faltering Standardization: Conflict and Labour Relations in China's Taxi and Sanitation Industries
(Wiley & Sons, 2021-09)The marketization of municipal services in China's cities from the 1990s triggered a wave of strikes beginning in the 2000s that provided an impetus towards standardization and the re-regulation of employment conditions. ... -
Who Will Help? Willingness to Work for the Union
(Départment des Relations Industrielles, Université Laval, 1994)This paper proposes and tests a model of a critical union commitment dimension: "Willingness to work" for the union. Organization and social psychological theories, along with previous empirical research, are used to develop ... -
India’s Outsourcing Industry and the Offshoring of Skilled Services Work: A Review Essay
(ADAPT University Press, 2015-01-29)The present paper proposes a framework for understanding the type of work and processes involved in offshoring that treats skills and wages as separate dimensions, and seeks to understand the transformation of work through ... -
Introduction to a Special Issue on Improving Private Regulation of Labor in Global Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence
(Cornell University, 2020-08)[Excerpt] As we write this introductory essay on private regulation in global supply chains, we are in the midst of a pandemic caused by COVID-19. Beyond the health care crisis, the economic disruption is devastating. ... -
Field Opacity and Practice-Outcome Decoupling: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
(Cornell University, 2020-08)Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable ...
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