Jun Zhou

Jun Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology with a certificate in Science, Technology & Society Program. Jun’s research interests intersect gender, work/labor, science and technology studies, and political economy.
Jun Zhou’s dissertation focuses on feminized digital labor within China’s platform economy, placing it within the context of the broader history of women’s labor in post-socialist China. This study investigates how digitalization reconfigures human and machine relationships while perpetuating older power structures. It critically evaluates both the continuities and changes in the dynamics among gender, capital, and the state. Jun’s previous project examined the collapse of work-family division in the post-industrial US, looking at how racial minorities navigate work-family relations in the informal sector and its implications for work-family reforms that resonate with an increasingly informal economy.
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