Thomas Peng
Assistant ProfessorLabor and Occupation, State-Society Relationship, Development and Globalization, China Studies
Ph.D. in Sociology, UC Berkeley (2021)
Assistant Professor, NTPU (2023/02-present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Academia Sinica (2021/07-2023/01)
Political Sociology
Sociology of Labor
Social Stratification
Introduction to Sociology
2022. “Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-corporatism and its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor,” Qualitative Sociology.
2021. “Importance of the ‘Social’: the Divergent Informal Careers of Chinese Internal Migrants,” Critical Sociology.
2011. “The Impact of Citizenship on Labour Process: State, Capital and Labour Control in South China,” Work, Employment and Society, 25(4): 726–741.
2007. 計時趕工的霸權體制：對華南一家加工出口台資廠的勞動體制研究, 《台灣社會學》, 14: 51–100.
2021. “Seeing Like a State Revisited: How Have Certain Schemes to Improve Human Condition Succeeded or Failed?” paper presented at Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, November 27th–28th.
2021. “The Impact of Citizenship on Labour Process: State, Capital and Labour Control in South China,” panel discussion at the WES Conference. Online, August 25th–27th.
2020. “Importance of the ‘Social’: the Divergent Informal Careers of Chinese Internal Migrants,” paper presented at Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, November 28th–29th.
2019. “Troubled Corporatism: The Chinese State-NGO Coalition and its Challenged Social Improvement Agenda,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, New York City, NY. August 10th–13th.
2019. “Precarity Diverged: Social Capital, Career Paths, and Spatial Mobility of the Chinese Internal Migrants,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, New York City, NY. August 10th–13th.
2016. “Living in the City: Labor Regime, Social Networks and Social Incorporation of Migrant Workers in Urban Village,” oral presentation at Tsing Hua University Labor Sociology Symposium. Beijing, China. January 23rd–24th.
2013. “Doing Christian, Doing Chinese: Daily Life Management of Ethnic Boundary in Two Chinese Churches,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association. New York, NY. August 10th–14th.
2012. “Company that Governs: Reassessing the Functional Boundary between State and Corporation in the Living World of Peasant Workers,” paper presented at Haas Junior Scholars Conference: Multi-disciplinary Interrogations of State and Society in China Conference, Berkeley, CA. October 6th.
2012. “Company as Alternate Local State: Unequal Social Rights, Corporation Organization and Employment Relation in China,” paper presented at 2012 People and Organizations Conference, Philadelphia, PA. September 28th–29th.
2012. “Company as Alternate Local State: Unequal Citizenship, Multi-dimensional Employment Relation and Dispersed Workplace Conflict in China,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, Denver, CO. August 17th–20th.
2008. “From Labor Process to Citizenship: The Hegemonic Factory Regime and Working Subjects in Contemporary South China,” paper presented at the conference “Breaking Down Chinese Walls: The Changing Faces of Labor and Employment in China,” Industrial and Labor Relation School of Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. September 26th–28th.
2007. 計時制、趕工遊戲、效率拜物教：一個中國台資工廠的個案研究 (“Hourly Wages, Making-Out and Efficiency Fetishism: the Case Study of a Taiwanese-invested Factory in China”), paper presented at 2007台灣社會學年會(“2007 Annual Meeting and Academic Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association”), 台灣社會學會(Taiwanese Sociological Association). 台灣台北(Taipei, Taiwan). November 24th–25th.
