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In Building China, Sarah Swider provides a fascinating, in-depth, and deeply empathetic view into the diverse range of labor structures emerging in modern China. This book makes male migrant construction workers visible, drawing the reader into the complex texture of their daily lives through clear, almost novelistic, prose and extremely rich and persuasive empirical research. -Rina Agarwala, The Johns Hopkins University, author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India Sarah Swider uses rich ethnographic materials in Building China to investigate a kind of worker rarely studied. Insightfully applying the concept of employment configuration, she investigates some of the mechanisms that push workers into informal employment. -Feng Xu, University of Victoria, author of Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labor Market

In Building China, Sarah Swider provides a fascinating, in-depth, and deeply empathetic view into the diverse range of labor structures emerging in modern China. This book makes male migrant construction workers visible, drawing the reader into the complex texture of their daily lives through clear, almost novelistic, prose and extremely rich and persuasive empirical research. -Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India Sarah Swider uses rich ethnographic materials in Building China to investigate a kind of worker rarely studied. Insightfully applying the concept of employment configuration, she investigates some of the mechanisms that push workers into informal employment. -Feng Xu, University of Victoria, author of Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labor Market

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Sarah Swider is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University.

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