Doctoral Dissertation Research: Harmony Under Construction - State Law and Rural Labor in Building Urban China

博士论文研究：建设中的和谐--中国城市建设中的国家法律与农村劳动力中国现代城市的壮观崛起是可能的，因为来自农村的大量劳动力的力量和劳动。本项目探讨中国经济、法律的和社会改革如何重新定义城市劳动力，以及建筑工人如何在日常生活中体验这些变化。它涉及法律与社会之间的关系问题，旨在发现公民被管理的新方式，法律的意识如何发展，以及公民身份如何在不断变化的经济和政治制度下转变。这项研究还补充了大量关于性别的研究，这些研究探讨了在中国工厂大量就业的农民工妇女的工作。建筑业几乎完全是男性的行业，因此可以将男子气概与男性移民的城市工作经验进行比较。此外，本研究还调查了欧美建筑公司在中国发展中的跨国角色，包括工作场所关系和外国建筑师与当地工人之间的设计沟通模式。研究者与西安当地学者合作，更好地了解中国建筑工人的日常生活;到目前为止，这一人群在当前关于中国发展的研究中基本上是不可见的，代表性不足。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Harmony Under Construction - State Law and Rural Labor in Building Urban ChinaThe spectacular rise of China's modern cities is possible because of the strength and labor of a vast workforce from the countryside. This project explores how economic, legal, and social reforms in China have redefined urban labor, and how construction workers experience these changes in their daily lives. It engages questions about the relationship between law and society, and aims to discover novel ways that citizens are governed, how legal consciousness is developing, and how citizenship is transforming under a changing economic and political system. The study also complements a large body of research on gender that explores the work of migrant women, employed in large numbers in China's factories. Construction, an almost exclusively male industry, allows for a comparison of masculinity and male migrants' experience of urban work. Further, this study investigates the transnational role of American and European architecture firms in Chinese development, including the workplace relationships and modes of communication about design between foreign architects and local labor.The researcher works in conjunction with local scholars in Xian to better understand the daily lives of construction workers in China; a population that, to-date, has been largely invisible and under-represented in current research on Chinese development.