Dr Chunyun Li

Assistant Professor

Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Faculty Group 

Biography

Chunyun Li joined the Department in September 2015. She completed her PhD in industrial relations and human resources at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labour Relations. As part of her doctorate research, she spent more than one year on observing and interviewing strikers and labour NGOs in China. She also has a BA in social security from Renmin University of China.

Research interests

• Comparative employment relations
• Collective bargaining
• Trade Unions
• Corporate social responsibility
• Labour Issues in China

Recent publications

• A pathway to a vital labour movement in China?: a case study of a union-led protest against Walmart 
  Li, Chunyun and Liu, Mingwei (2016) A pathway to a vital labour movement in China?: a case study of a union-led protest against Walmart. In: Liu, Mingwei and Smith, Chris, (eds.) China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137433282 (In Press)
• Corporate social responsibility and labor standards in supplier factories: does global value chain structure matter? 
  Liu, Mingwei and Li, Chunyun (2015) Corporate social responsibility and labor standards in supplier factories: does global value chain structure matter? In: British Journal of Industrial Relations Special Issue Workshop, 23 - 24 April 2015, London, UK. (Unpublished)
• Between labor and the state: the birth and transformation of labor NGOs in China 
  Li, Chunyun (2015) Between labor and the state: the birth and transformation of labor NGOs in China. In: LERA 67th Annual Meeting , 28 - 31 May 2015, Pittsburgh, US. (Unpublished)
• Chunyun Li and Mingwei Liu (2014) “Toward a Labor Movement in Formation? Case Study of Protests against Walmart Store Closure in China.” In: Cornell-Renmin Workshop on Collective Bargaining in China, 15 December 2014, Beijing China (unpublished).
• Mingwei Liu and Chunyun Li (2014) Environment Pressures, Managerial Industrial Relations Ideologies, and Unionization in Chinese Enterprises, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.52, No. 1, pp. 82-111.

 Complete list of publications