BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute's East Asia Program presents \;Xiaos huo Hou from Skidmore College.At a time when the gig economy and precariou s labor is on the rise on a global scale\, what happens to the largest wor k force in the world? This talk explores both the institutional and the in dividual processes that lead to an increase in informal employment and the clustering of day laborers—predominantly male born in the 1990s—in major cities in China such as Shenzhen. In this talk\, Professor Hou draws on he r ethnographic studies of two of those communities and shares the experien ces of a new generation of rural-to-urban migrant workers who are concurre ntly facing the normalization of migration\, the rising costs of living in urban cities\, the slowdown of China’s economic growth\, the stagnation o f social mobility\, the penetration of the social media\, and the prolifer ation of a consumerist and sexualized culture.Xiaoshuo Hou is professor of sociology and Asian studies at Skidmore College where she held the inaugu ral Frances Young Tang ’61 Chair in Chinese Studies and is currently the c hair of the Department of Sociology. She is the author of Community Capita lism in China: The State\, the Market\, and Collectivism (Cambridge Univer sity Press\, 2013) and Young and Restless in China: Informal Economy\, Gen der\, and the Precariat (Cambridge University Press\, 2024). She is also t he co-editor of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race\, Ethnicity and N ationalism (2016) and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism (2020). DTEND:20260403T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260510T121429Z DTSTART:20260403T153000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Young and Restless in China: The Rise of a New Generation of Migran t Workers UID:RFCALITEM639139976695717614 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute's East Asia Program presents \;Xiaoshuo Hou from Skidmore College.

At a time when th e gig economy and precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale\, what happens to the largest work force in the world? This talk explores both t he institutional and the individual processes that lead to an increase in informal employment and the clustering of day laborers—predominantly male born in the 1990s—in major cities in China such as Shenzhen.

In thi s talk\, Professor Hou draws on her ethnographic studies of two of those c ommunities and shares the experiences of a new generation of rural-to-urba n migrant workers who are concurrently facing the normalization of migrati on\, the rising costs of living in urban cities\, the slowdown of China’s economic growth\, the stagnation of social mobility\, the penetration of t he social media\, and the proliferation of a consumerist and sexualized cu lture.

Xiaoshuo Hou is professor of sociology and A sian studies at Skidmore College where she held the inaugural Frances Youn g Tang ’61 Chair in Chinese Studies and is currently the chair of the Depa rtment of Sociology. She is the author of Community Capitalism in Chin a: The State\, the Market\, and Collectivism (Cambridge University Pr ess\, 2013) and Young and Restless in China: Informal Economy\, Gender \, and the Precariat (Cambridge University Press\, 2024). She is also the co-editor of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race\, Ethnicity and Nationalism (2016) and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race \, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism (2020).

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