Talks
Recent and selected talks.
Recent and Upcoming Invited Talks
University of California, Davis
Walmart: Made in China
2026
London School of Economics
Walmart in China, Realization Labor, and Extending Burawoy
November 20, 2025
Loughborough University, London
Walmart: Made in China
November 25, 2025
Northeastern University
From Partner to Bully: Shifting Employment Conditions in Walmart, China
2019
University of Pennsylvania
From Partner to Bully: Shifting Employment Conditions in Walmart, China
2020
University of Hong Kong
Precarity Struggles: Women, Retail and Insecure Labor in China
Keynote address, 2018
Selected Conference Presentations
International Sociological Association
Making Walmart in China: Labor Regimes, Consumption, and the Movement of Goods Along the Internal Supply Chain
Rabat, Morocco, 2025
International Labour Process Conference
Realization Labor: Labor Regimes and the Movement of Goods at the End of the Supply Chain in China
Göttingen, Germany, 2024
International Labour Process Conference
The Degradation of a Labor Regime in China's Walmart Retail Stores
Padua, Italy, 2022
Media and Public Engagement
Interviews, podcasts, book salons, and media appearances to be added.