Despite all the manufacturing growth, China is not creating enough good jobs. Even for those who get a job at BYD or some place similar, they will have no union, lots of casualized labor, punishing output quotas, etc.
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'It matters to me as a jew...the genocide being committed against Palestinians is not being done in our name.'

ASA Sociology member Eli Friedman on why he is voting YES on the Resolution for Justice in Palestine, and why you should too.

This nonsense is v on brand for Cornell admin, but there's a GREAT counter-panel coming from our grassroots on the racialized history of immigration in the US, the role of praxis for upholding both the right to move and the right to stay home, and more.👇

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The obvious outcome of the weaponization of antisemitism to suppress propalestinian voices on campuses - the legitimation of white suprematism 👇🏼

Introducing the fourth panel in the 'Labor in China' series: From the Nintendo Switch to the Amazon Echo Dot, from the iPhone to the Sony PlayStation, these products represent just a fraction of the vast array produced by the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn...

Taking the solar eclipse as an occasion to announce that my book Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China will be out this July with Stanford Press
More info forthcoming but for now, check out the great cover! sup.org/books/title/?i…
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Great news! thehill.com/homenews/educa…