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A Note on the Life Course Perspective in Sociology
This post contains my notes for Prof. Phyllis Moen’s doctoral seminar Topics in Life Course: Work and Well-Being in Turbulent Times at the University of Minnesota, Fall 2022. The seminar, in Phyllis’s own words, was to “adopt a gendered life course, stress process, intersectional approach” to “address the health and well-being implications of, and inequities around, the changing nature and culture of paid work, along with ongoing disparities around both paid work and unpaid family care work.” The seminar was very informative and could not be summarized in one single post. Consequently, my focus will be on the broad principles of the life course pespective as an epistemology.
Book Review for Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis is a collection of essays by Nancy Fraser from 1985 to 2010. The book, in Fraser’s own word, is to clarify the “struggles and wishes” of the second-wave feminism in the United States (p. 26). By doing so, Fraser sheds lights on a new pathway towards gender justice in the contemporary world. As Fraser is a political philosopher, the book proves to be mostly conceptual. The contents of the book are organized into three parts, corresponding to three distinct themes of the second-wave feminism: redistribution, recognition, and representation. The present book review follows a similar structure, as I will highlight the struggles and wishes around each of the three themes. I will also briefly discuss how Fraser’s work can inform future research on work and employment at the end of the review.
Simple Stata-to-LaTeX Tempaltes
Stata’s popular user-wrriten command estout/esttab is a powerful tool to export Stata output to other envrionments (csv, txt, word, and tex). Nevertheless, there are lots of details one need to remember to use esttab/estout to produce nice tables. Things become even more intimidating if one wishes to use Stata for analysis and LaTeX for writing, partly because of LaTeX’s plasticity and, therefore, complexity.
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publications
Published Work
Lei, Jianxuan. “The importance of legal strength for trade unions: Theory and evidence from China.” Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 63.4 (2024): 491-511. Link
Work in Progress
Lei, Jianxuan. “From gender antagonism to inclusive solidarity? Trade union membership and attitudes towards women’s employment.” Status: minor revision. PDF
Job Market Paper
Lei, Jianxuan. “Normalizing opposition to labor unions: The impact of the 1981 PATCO strike on union organizing.” PDF
talks
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teaching
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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HRIR 3071: Union Organizing and Labor Relations (Undergraduate Course, Carlson School of Management, 2024 Spring)
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At the University of Minnesota, I have independently taught undergraduate courses in labor relations. My teaching integrates theoretical foundations with experiential learning through analyses of legal materials, debates on contemporary workplace issues, and simulations of collective bargaining and grievance procedures. I also bring union representatives, HR professionals, government officials, and labor arbitrators into the classroom to expose students to diverse stakeholder perspectives and career paths. Beyond labor relations, I have worked as a teaching assistant for a number of business courses such as Compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Personnel Economics, Negotiations, and People Analytics. Together with my academic training, these experiences have prepared me to teach broadly across human resource management while offering specialized expertise in labor relations.