Yiran Zhang
yiranzhang.bsky.social
Yiran Zhang
@yiranzhang.bsky.social
Ass't Prof @CornellILR, Associate faculty @CornellLaw, SJD22' @Harvard_Law. Care work; boundary of work; gender and political economy.
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I am releasing my new paper-- Workification--into the world. It's forthcoming with UCLA Law Review and available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Workification
More and more, the law is transforming activities once considered outside the market into "work." Two case studies of graduate students who perform wo
papers.ssrn.com
You can access the paper here: cornellilj.org/2025/03/10/g...
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I am releasing my new paper-- Workification--into the world. It's forthcoming with UCLA Law Review and available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Workification
More and more, the law is transforming activities once considered outside the market into "work." Two case studies of graduate students who perform wo
papers.ssrn.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So honored to be part of this one-of-a-kind symposium issue on transnational labor rights!
"Gender, Value-Chain Upgrading, and The Costs of Human Capital: The Case of a Garment Supply Chain in China," by @yiranzhang.bsky.social, discusses the results of her unique case study of China’s recent transition to a value-chain upgrading regime and its impact on female internal migrant workers.
March 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Yiran Zhang
Great new article out from @yiranzhang.bsky.social on the linked reorganizations of garment production and social reproduction in contemporary China
The Paradox of Upgrading: Standards of Social Reproduction and the Gendered Precarization of Garment Work in China - Yiran Zhang, 2024
This article presents a comparative case study that traces the reconfiguration of production and social reproduction processes under China’s upgrading reform ac...
journals.sagepub.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#AcademicSky #LawSky, let's get to know each other. Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you're working on, 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about
1) The "workification" of students, rehabilitants, & nonmarket labor
2) What is the status of dogs in social reproduction?
#AcademicSky #LawSky let's get to know each other. Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you're working on, 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about

1) what should be the legal status of different types of volunteers under employment law?

2) Is there a right to sit down?
#AcademicSky #LawSky let's get to know each other. Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you're working on, 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about

1) borrowers choose lenders’ counsel in debt deals. Weird, right?!

2) odd family law project…but it might be happening?
November 14, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Thrilled that my forthcoming article, "Home as Non-workplace," was reviewed by Deepa Das Acevedo via
@jotwell.bsky.social work law: worklaw.jotwell.com/this-place-i....
This Place is My Workplace… This Place is Your Workplace… - Worklaw
Yiran Zhang, Home as Non-Workplace, __ B.U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Mar. 11, 2024).Deepa Das AcevedoEveryone reading this jot likely has a story about how the home/office divide c...
worklaw.jotwell.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Not yet on Bluesky and already challenged...
November 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM