Center for Global Work and Employment Events

Our current capitalist system is jeopardizing the future of the planet. How can we create the coalitions capable of moving us towards an ecofriendly solidarity society? In this talk, we will explore the priorities of the powerful, the mistaken theories that justify their hegemony, and the alternative world views that are firing the imagination and efforts of feminists and other activists to bring about transformative change.

China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how short-lived emperors often ruled a strong state while long-lasting emperors governed a weak one, Yuhua Wang shows why lessons from China’s history can help us better understand state building.

In this presentation, Professor Yu Xie first documents a sharp rise in economic inequality in contemporary China. He then presents results from his research program on the impact of rising economic inequality on a variety of social and demographic outcomes in China: intergenerational mobility, marriage age, marriage partner choice, fertility, and mortality. 

Ginny Doellgast and Ian Greer (Cornell University) will present on their recent books: Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Doellgast) and Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy: Autonomy and Automation (Greer).

How to retain and engage employees in the post-pandemic world has recently caught wide public attention in many countries. Three speakers of this forum, Robert Ployhart (University of South Carolina), Chris Rowley (University of Oxford), and Ingo Weller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), will share their insights on this issue focusing on the situations in the US, the UK, and Germany.

The Center for Global Work and Employment, the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN), and the Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University hosted a discussion on the Just Transition Listening Project (JTLP)’s 2021 report Workers and Communities in Transition.

In this talk co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work & Employment and Rutgers Global-China Office, Xueguang Zhou (Stanford University) will present on his forthcoming book, The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This book summarized his decade-long fieldwork and research on various aspects of governance practice in contemporary China.

Join the Center for Global Work and Employment on April 18, 2022 for a presentation by Mark Anner (Penn State University) on his recent International Labour Review piece “Three labour governance mechanisms for addressing decent work deficits in global value chains.”

Join the Center for Global Work and Employment and Rutgers Business School on February 25, 2022 for an online discussion with Sarosh Kuruvilla (Cornell University) on his recent book “Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Problems, Progress, and Prospects.”