 | Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat Subjects: Construction workers -- China; Construction industry -- China; Informal sector (Economics) -- China; Migrant labor -- China; Labor movement -- China; In Building China , Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, and labor contractors. Her ethnography focuses on the work, family, and social lives of construction workers in China. Sarah Swider is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. |
