PdH at University of Copenhagen – Bourses de recherche Danemark 2019

The PhD student will join a research program that will examine China’s changing economy and transitioning employment relations by looking at how work is being re-organized, along with the emergence of new types of work and jobs. It will focus on the rise of the tertiary industry (service sector) which now represents 42.4 percent of all employment in China. This project will map out the quality and characteristics of some of the largest and fastest growing job segments in China’s emerging service sector and investigate how patterns of change in jobs structure potentially leads to shifts in class structure, class conflict and social change. The eligible student should have strong training in labor theory, industrial labor relations and/or welfare theory.

The PhD programme provides PhD students with strong research training, which opens up a window of oppor...