Mobilization, Repression, and State Capacity

Mobilization, Repression, and State Capacity: China and Indonesia Compared

Speaker: William J. Hurst
Assistant Professor, Government, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, December 8, 2008
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

108N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7035

WILLIAM HURST, assistant professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, received his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley in 2005. His prior work has centered on contemporary Chinese labour, particularly the social and political impacts of mass lay-offs from state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is the author of The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 forthcoming) and an editor of Laid-off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009 forthcoming). He is currently working on articles comparing state repression of contentious challengers in China and Indonesia, and analyzing the social roots of contention and quiescence in rural China. His ongoing research focuses on the institutional workings of the Chinese legal system, as well as on labor markets, working class politics, and the legal system in Indonesia.