Speaker: Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
This lecture uses a pair of original protest event datasets to compare popular mobilizations and their outcomes in two of the world’s centers for coal mining: North China and Appalachia.
Speaker's Bio: Manfred Elfstrom is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (Cambridge University Press 2001), and his work has appeared in Comparative Politics, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, and elsewhere. Before entering academia, Dr. Elfstrom worked in the non-profit world, supporting workers’ rights and improved grassroots governance in China.
This event is part of the 2023-2024 lecture series on “Labor Market Transformations in China" and is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by Columbia's China Center for Social Policy.
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