Lu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. Her work has been published in International Labor and Working Class History and the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management. She has contributed to five books: Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises (2014), China and Global Governance: The Dragon's Learning Curve (2014), From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China (2011), Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and its Alternatives (2011), and China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (2009). She received the Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association and the Best Dissertation Prize from the journal Labor History. She is currently researching capital relocation strategy and labor politics in China and Vietnam and teaching globalization, labor, development, and political economy in China and East Asia.
