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POLITICAL POWER AND SOCIAL THEORY VOLUME 35

GENDERING STRUGGLES AGAINST INFORMAL AND PRECARIOUS WORK

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RINA AGARWALA

Johns Hopkins University, USA

JENNIFER JIHYE CHUN

University of California-Los Angeles, USA

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About the Authors

Rina Agarwala is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She publishes and lectures on international development, labor, migration, gender, social movements, and Indian politics. She is the author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India and the co-author of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia.

Jennifer Jihye Chun is an Associate Professor in Asian American Studies and the International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States and is writing a book on public cultures of protest in South Korea.

Yang-Sook Kim is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Drawing on ethnographic data from South Korea and the United States, her dissertation explores how workers navigate their ways of survival in increasingly marketized care sectors, focusing on the nexus of gender, migration, ethnicity, and care work.

Migrante BC is a community-based, multi-sectoral organization committed to the protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of Filipino immigrants and migrant workers in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of a network of groups in Canada (Migrante Canada) and around the world (Migrante International).

Ruth Milkman is a Distinguished Professor of Labor and Labor Movements at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. Her scholarship focuses on work and organized labor in the United States, both in the past and present. Her most recent book is On Labor, Gender and Inequality (Illinois, 2016). She has published extensively on low-wage immigrant workers, analyzing their employment conditions as well as the dynamics of immigrant labor organizing.

Geraldine Pratt is a Professor of Geography at University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Working Feminism (2004) and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (2012) and the co-editor of The Global and the Intimate (2012). She has co-written two plays pertaining to Filipino domestic workers in Canada (Nanay and Tlingipino Bingo).

Georgina Rojas-García is a Professor at CIESAS, Mexico. Her research interests include economic restructuring and labor, paid domestic work, and informal workers organizing. With Mónica Toledo, she recently published Paid Domestic Work: Gender and the Informal Economy in Mexico in Latin American Perspectives.

Nik Theodore is a Professor of Urban Planning and Policy and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His current research pursuits include the study of urban informal economies, low-wage labor markets, and worker organizing.

Chris Tilly is a Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He studies labor and inequality in the United States and globally, focusing on bad jobs and how to make them better. His publications include Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America and Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs across Countries and Companies.

SaunJuhi Verma is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New York, USA. As a Fulbright scholar, Dr Verma’s research has centered upon questions of immigration to evaluate the global forms of labor inequality. Her publication record includes academic journals, media outlets, and two forthcoming book manuscripts, including Captive Labor: Political Exile in the Age of Global Migrant Markets.