Tat Chor Au-Yeung received his PhD in social policy from the University of Sheffield. Before doing the postgraduate study, he worked as a community organizer advocating policy changes for poverty reduction. Prior to joining Lingnan University, he had taught social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include social security, labor market policies, and precarious employment. He also extensively collaborates with NGOs and unions to promote social and labor rights in Hong Kong and beyond. He has published in Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Administration, Social Policy & Society, Economic and Labor Relations Review, and so forth.
Tom Brass formerly lectured in the Social and Political Sciences Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies in SPS for Queens’ College. He carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India during the 1970s and 1980s and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies (1990-2008). His books include New Farmers’ Movements in India (1995); Free and Unfree Labor: The Debate Continues (1997); Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labor (1999); Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000); Latin American Peasants (2003); Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011); Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014); Labor Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017); Revolution and Its Alternatives (2019); and Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism (2021).
Eran Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, the Open University of Israel. He studies technology and society, with a special interest in digital media, digital work and capitalism, big data and algorithms, and media history. His work has been published in venues such as: European Journal of Social Theory; Media, Culture, and Society; Information, Communication, and Society; The Information Society; Subjectivity; Cultural Studies; and Continuum. His books include Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age (Palgrave, 2010), Internet and Emotions (Routledge, 2014; co-edited with Tova Benski), and Reconsidering Value and Labor in the Digital Age (Palgrave, 2015; co-edited with Christian Fuchs). His latest book Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge is published by Routledge.
Heidi Gottfried is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. She has co-edited numerous books and special issues on gender, work, care, and the economy, including the Global Labor Migration: New Directions (ed. With Eileen Boris, Julie Greene and Joo-Cheong Tham, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming); The Sage Handbook on the Sociology of Work and Employment (ed. with Stephen Edgell and Ed Granter, Sage, 2015), Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives (ed. with Sylvia Walby, Karin Gottschall, and Mari Osawa, Palgrave, 2007), Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis (ed. with Laura Reese, Lexington Press, 2008); and special issues in journals such as “Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration and Care”, Critical Sociology (2018), “Gender and Workplace Policies in Comparative Perspective”, Review of Policy Research, (with Laura Reese, 2008). Her books include Gender, Work and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy (Polity Press, 2013) and The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism (Brill, 2015).
Vasilis Grollios received his degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He has conducted postdoc research in the University of York, United Kingdom. He is the author of Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition, Routledge, 2017, and has published papers on radical democratic theory in journals such as Constellations, Critical Sociology, Critique: A Journal of Socialist Philosophy and the Journal of Political Ideologies.
Shuheng Jin is Assistant Professor in Department of Social Work, Guangdong University of Technology. She has specialized on gender, labor, migrant motherhood in Mainland China.
Marjorie Johnstone, MSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University in Canada. Her research focuses on critical feminist perspectives, the history of Canadian social work, community mental health, citizenship, immigration, and globalization.
Yuyang Kang is Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her research interests include higher education management and youth development in general.
Haley Kwan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on gender, labor, social reproduction, gig labor process, platform work, gig economy, and China.
Eunjung Lee, PhD, MSW, RSW is an Associate Professor and Endowed Chair in Mental Health and Health at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto in Canada. She is a psychotherapy process researcher focusing on cross-cultural clinical practice in community mental health. Using critical theories in language, discourse and power, her research focuses on everyday interactions in clinical practice and simulation-based learning in social work education, as well as immigration, transnationalism, and politics of multiculturalism and welfare state.
Lisa YM Leung is Associate Professor and Associate Head of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University Hong Kong. She has researched and published extensively in the area of transnational media circulation. Her recent research focuses on minority, migration and race. She is co-author of the book Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (HKU Press, 2014). Her second book, Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation: Creative Belonging in Hong Kong (Routledge, 2021) examines the diverse participation of migrant/minority youths to struggle for recognition, while engaging in calls for democratic changes in the territory.
Asa Maron is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. A political and economic sociologist, his research focuses on intersections of the welfare state and neoliberalism, exploring the role of state organizations, professionals and international policy ideas in politics and policymaking. He has published in Work, Employment and Society, Public Management Review, Journal of Social Policy and Law & Society Review. He is the co-editor of Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel (Oxford University Press, 2017). Asa’s current research project applies a comparative perspective to study limits to the financialization of the state in the case of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs).
Ka Ho Mok is Vice President and Director of Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has researched and published extensively in comparative development and policy studies with focus on China and East Asia.
Ngai Pun is Chair Professor in Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She obtained her PhD from SOAS, University of London. She was honored as the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award for her first book Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005). Her co-authored book, Dying for iPhone: Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers (2020) has also been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. She is the sole author of Migrant Labor in China: Post Socialist Transformation (2016, Polity Press), editor of seven book volumes in Chinese and English. She has published widely in leading international journals such as Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Dialectical Anthropology, Positions, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Sociological Review, Work, Employment and Society, Modern China, China Quarterly and China Journal.
Jack Qiu grew up in China and lived in California during his PhD studies. Before relocating to Singapore, he was a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2020. He works on issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor, class, globalization, and sustainability, especially in the contexts of Asia and the Global South. He has published more than 100 research articles and chapters and 10 books in both English and Chinese including Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition (U of Illinois Press, 2016), World Factory in the Information Age (Guangxi Normal U Press, 2013), and Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009).
Watoii Rabii is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University. His research interests include race and ethnicity, immigration, masculinity, criminology, and urban sociology. His research agenda explores attitudes and discourses about race, masculinity, and immigration in rustbelt cities. He also examines the experiences of immigrants and people of color with the criminal justice and immigration system.
Kaxton Siu is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology in The Hong Kong Baptist University. He researches comparative labor studies, migration studies, urban sociology, and youth studies. He also specializes in Chinese society, Hong Kong society, Vietnamese society, Japanese society, and Cambodian society. He has published two books: Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam in 2020, and Hong Kong Society: High-Definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West in 2022. His current research include Chinese investors in Vietnam and Cambodia and their impact on industrial relations systems and labor standards, and Chinese and Vietnamese industrial trainees in Japan.
Tommy Tse is Assistant Professor in the Media Studies Department at The University of Amsterdam and an affiliated member of HKU Global China Social Research Hub. He specializes in cultural economy and creative labor. His work has appeared in Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Cultural Economy and Sociology. He is an Editorial Board Member of Work, Employment and Society.
