Sarah Swider
Associate Professor
Affiliated Faculty Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Sarah Swider
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
- Precarious and informal work
- Labor and labor movements
- Sociology of development
- Migration and social inequality
- Gender, labor and social movements
- China and Asian studies
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (September, 2008)
- M.A. in Sociology (May, 2004)
- M.S. in Industrial Labor Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison (August, 2000)
- B.A. in Political Science (with distinction), Cornell University (May, 1994)
- Intermediate and Advanced Language Training (Saint Michael’s College Certificate), Beijing Language and Culture Institute, Beijing, China (summer/fall 2004)
- Chinese American Center, Chinese Language Study Summer Immersion Program (Saint Michael’s College Certificate), Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing, China (summer 2002)
Awards and grants
- Swider, S. and Tong Xin. “Informal Construction and Domestic Work: Collaborative Research on Institutional Influences in Job Quality.” Subcontract for research in China $19,500, Ford Foundation, January 2015-June 2017
- Swider, S. and Nicholas Perry. “Detroit’s Informal Worker Initiative: Moving from Detriment to Advantage.” Student Urban Research Experiences (SURE) Grant $2,000, Wayne State Urban Studies Group, 2014-5
- “Building China and Re-Constructing Asia: migration, citizenship and development.” Humanities Center Fellowship, Wayne State University, $4,505.00, Summer 2012
- “Shaping the Informal Labor Market in China: Understanding State-Market relations.” Junior Faculty Grant in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Wayne State University, $48,148, 2010-2011
- “Labor market and employment variation among migrants in different Chinese cities.” University Research Grant Program, Wayne State University, $10,000, Summer 2010
- Working Group on Contemporary China, (with seven colleagues), Wayne State University, 2010-11, $8,000
Selected publications
- 2015. “Building China: The Rise of Informal Work and the New Precariat,” Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
- Winner of 2016 Book Award, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association
- Honorable Mention for 2016 Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section, American Sociological Association
- “Migration and Regional Inequality: Changing Characteristics of China’s Economic Inequality.” Eurasian Geography and Economics (with co-author Lianqing Peng).
- “Informal and precarious work, the precariat and China.” Rural China
- 2016. “Land Expropriation in China: An Examination of Negotiations and Compensation,” Urban Geography, pp. 1-19 (co-authors Hui Wang, Xiao Chen and Pengyu Zhu)
- 2015. 纸永久暂时性的中国建筑行业 (Permanent Temporariness in the Chinese Construction Industry), Labor Sociology Review (劳动社会学评论) July vol. 1.
- 2014. “Building China: Migrants in Precarious Work in China’s Construction Industry,” in Work, Employment, and Society. Published online before print August 4, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0950017014526631.
- Awarded the 2016 Work, Employment and Society (WES) SAGE Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence
- 2014. “Reshaping China’s Urban Citizenship: Street Vendors, Chengguan and Struggles over the Right to the City,” Critical Sociology. Published online before print April 29, 2014, doi: 10.1177/0896920514529676