Yiran Zhang joins the faculty of the Labor Relations, Law, & History Department, where she will continue her research on care labor and informal work. She comes to Cornell after earning both her doctorate and her master of laws degrees from Harvard Law School. Zhang earned her bachelor of laws degree from Tsinghua University.
What is your research about?
My research studies the governance of care work at the intersection of the often-informal labor markets and the economic household. I am interested in the ways in which law and policies shape the power dynamics affecting paid and unpaid social reproductive labor, especially the labor that is traditionally associated with “women’s work.” My first stream of research uses interview-based methods to study how law and market norms impacts informal workers’ workplace, family, and migration strategies in Asia. My second stream of research examines how the U.S. public spending programs shape the care economy, the life of workers, care recipients, and their families in it, and work law at large.
How did you become interested in your field?
At the beginning of my doctoral studies, I met an undocumented Filipina domestic worker in China. Her surprising life trajectory, profound understanding of work and law, and dynamic migrant worker community challenged how I had understood employment and labor law. This experience has inspired me to study work law in social contexts.
What impact do you hope your research will have?
First, I...
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