William Hurst

Biography

Research interests:
Labor Politics, Political Economy, Contentious Politics, Social Protection, Social Inequality, Politics of Courts and Legal Institutions.

Countries and Areas of Specialization: China, Indonesia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

Recent Publications:
2009. The Chinese Worker After Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Previous publications include articles in: Studies in Comparative International Development, The China Quarterly, China Information and Issues and Studies. He is also the co-editor of China’s Shattered Rice Bowl: Laid- off Workers in a Workers’ State, available from Palgrave-MacMillan. He is currently working on several articles, including one comparing state responses to contention by Chinese laid-off workers and Indonesian Islamist student, and two others analyzing results of a large-scale survey on rural protests and petitioning in several Chinese provinces.