Done with dumping my papers on Bluesky😆

More on how the intensifying motherhood norm among migrant workers under China's upgrading reforms led to a gendered precarization of manufacturing work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Please let me know what you think!

Writing this paper makes me acutely aware of the rapidly changing norms regarding "work" in and beyond campus/academia that we are all going through. And how "work" is *always* a socially/legally constructed/contested concept.

Doctrinally, I examine how "employee" classification addresses this fundamental question of what constitutes a "work" relationship.
Sociologically, I analyze how the "work" claims both respond to and reinforce the commodification of supposedly non-market relationships.

To support this concept, I researched (hopefully) all NLRA and FLSA "employee" classification cases regarding students and work therapy programs--which have exploded since the 2010s. (huge thanks to
@mattbruenig.bsky.social 's NLRB Research Database)

"Workification" describes two overlapping phenomena: 1) (previously) non-market labor (e.g., student work) becomes "work" through employee classification adjudications; 2) the project of turning to work law to solve problems within non-market relationships

Thank you😘

SSRN link to the article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"To be sure, we all understand that domestic labor is undervalued, underpaid, and insufficiently protected. But what about domestic space? Specifically, what about domestic space that is no longer, or no longer only, domestic?"-- summarized this paper's motivation better than I could.

Well, it's time to admit that I only open/create professional social media when I have something to share.