Book
Zhang, Lu. 2015. Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Winner of 2016 Asian and Transnational Studies Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section, American Sociological Association
- Honorable Mention for 2015 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Labor and Labor Movement Section, American Sociological Association
- German translation, 2018. Arbeitskämpfe in Chinas Autofabriken. Berlin: Mandelbaum Verlag
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Zhang, Lu. 2024. “Labour process theory and research on the changing nature of work and employment in China.” Work in the Global Economy, 4(2): 193–214. https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2024D000000022
Zhang, Lu. 2023. “A ‘Race to the Bottom’ or Variegated Work Regimes? Industrial Relocation, the Changing Migrant Labor Regime, and Worker Agency in China’s Electronics Industry.” Review of International Political Economy, 30(1): 359-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.2010789
Zhang, Lu and Tao Yang. 2022. “Worker Activism and Enterprise Union Reform in China: A Case Study of Grassroots Union Agency in the Auto Parts Industry.” Development and Change 53(2): 396-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12551
—- Wiley Top Cited Article, 2022-2023.
Zhang, Lu. 2021. “Contextualizing Precarious Work: Labor Dispatch, Boundary-Drawing, and the Politics of Labor Regulation in Post-Socialist China.” Labor History, 62(5-6): 556-574. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2021.1983529
Zhang, Lu. 2021. “Lean Production in China: A Case Study of the Automobile Industry.” Pp. 549-572 in The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production: Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World, edited by Thomas Janoski and Darina Lepadatu. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333870.024
Zhang, Lu. 2019. “Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011–2016.” Pp. 119-136 in Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China, edited by Teresa Wright. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433787.00016
Zhang, Lu. 2018. “Labour Relations and Trade Union Reform in the Chinese Automobile Industry.” Pp. 89-108 in Trade Unions in Transition: From Command to Market Economies, edited by Rudolf Traub-Merz and Tim Pringle. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Bartley, Tim and Lu Zhang. 2017. “China and global labor standards: Making sense of factory certification.” Pp. 228-249 in Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve, edited by S. Kennedy. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100524-11
Zhang, Lu. 2017. “Employment, Labour Relations and Trade Union Strategies in the Automotive Industry in China.” Pp.187-205 in The Automotive Sector in Emerging Economies: Industrial Policies, Market Dynamics, and Trade Unions–Trends & Perspectives in Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia, edited by Rudolf Traub-Merz. Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Lu Zhang. 2015. “Lean Production ‘with Chinese Characteristics’: A Case Study of China’s Automobile Industry.” International Journal of Sociology 45 (2): 152-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2015.1061861
Lu Zhang. 2014. “Whose Hard Times? Explaining Autoworkers Strike Waves in Recent-Day China.” Pp.213-242 in Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises, edited by L. Fink, J. Sangster, and J. A. McCartin. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Lu Zhang. 2011. “The Paradox of Labor Force Dualism and State-Labor-Capital Relations in the Chinese Automobile Industry.” Pp.107-137 in From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China, edited by S. Kuruvilla, C. K. Lee, and M. E. Gallagher. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Chinese translation in Labor Sociology Review Issue No. 1, August 2015.)
Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang. 2011. “Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?” Pp.25-57 in Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and its Alternatives, edited by J. Shefner and P. Fernández-Kelly. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.
Beverly Silver and Lu Zhang. 2009. “China as an Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest.” Pp.174-187 in China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism, edited by Ho-Fung Hung. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
—- Chinese translation in Public Life Review , 2011.
—- German translation in Das Argument, 2009.
—- Italian translation in Devi Sacchetto and Massimiliano Tomba (eds.) La lunga accumulazione originaria, November, 2008, pp.177-189.
Lu Zhang. 2008. “Lean Production and Labor Controls in the Chinese Automobile Industry in an Age of Globalization.” International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), Vol. 73: 24-44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547908000033
—- German translation in Aufbruch Der Zweiten Generation, 2010, pp.50-78.
—- Chinese translation in Public Life Review , 2011.
Lu Zhang. 2006. “Globalization, Market Reform, and Changing Labor Politics in China’s Automobile Industry,” International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM), Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 440-54. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJATM.2006.012235
Book translation
Chinese Translation of Silver, J. Beverly. 2003. Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge University Press (with new Preface for the Chinese translation). 2011. Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, China.