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Publications
Books
Stephen WK Chiu and Kaxton Siu. (2022) Hong Kong Society: High Definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West, Hong Kong Studies Reader Series, Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 978-981-165-706-1]
Kaxton Siu. (2020) Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam, Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies, Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9123-2; ISBN: 978-981-329-122-5].
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Javier Pang, Kaxton Siu (2023). “Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises.” Critical Asian Studies, 55(4), 538-554. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 7th out of 81 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Ngai Pun, Kaxton Siu and Heidi Gottfried (2022). “Global Capitalism and Labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China.” Critical Sociology, 48 (7-8), 1115-1122. [Impact Factor: Q3 and Ranked 84th out of 149 in the Sociology Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Kaxton Siu and Shuheng Jin (2022). “Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital.” Critical Sociology, 48 (7-8), 1123-1139. [Impact Factor: Q3 and Ranked 94th out of 148 in the Sociology Category in Journal Citation Reports 2021].
Kaxton Siu and Anita Koo (2022). "Temporary Labor Migration and Skill Transfer in Japan: Migration Experiences and Outcomes of Technical Intern Trainees from Vietnam and China." Journal of Social Issues, 78 (3), 606-626. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 6th out of 44 in the Social Issues Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Kaxton Siu and Jonathan Unger (2020). “Work and Family Life among Migrant Factory Workers in China and Vietnam”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 50:3, pp. 341-360. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 11th out of 84 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Jonathan Unger and Kaxton Siu (2019). “The Changing Conditions and Strategies of Chinese Migrant Factory Workers across Three Decades: Urbanization, Employment and Family Strategies”, Labor History, 60(6), pp. 765-778. [Impact Factor: Q3 and Ranked 19th out of 34 in the History of Social Sciences Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Kaxton Siu (2017). “Labor and Domination: Worker Control in a Chinese Factory”, Politics and Society, 45(4), pp. 533-557, 2017. [Impact Factor: Q2 and Ranked 59th out of 149 in the Sociology Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Ivan Franceschini, Kaxton Siu and Anita Chan (2016). “The ‘Rights Awakening’ of Chinese Migrant Workers: Beyond the Generational Perspective.” Critical Asian Studies, 48(3), pp. 422-442, 2016. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 7th out of 81 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Julian Groves, Wai-Ip Ho and Kaxton Siu (2016). “Exploring the Sacred-secular Dialect in Everyday Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Religious Responses to Managerialism among Outreach Social Workers in Hong Kong.” British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), pp. 1411-1428. [Impact Factor: Q2 and Ranked 22nd out of 44 in Social Work Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Kaxton Siu (2015). “Continuity and Change in the Everyday Lives of Chinese Migrant Factory Workers.” The China Journal, Vol. 74, pp. 43-65. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 2nd out of 84 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022]
Kaxton Siu and Anita Chan (2015). “Strike Waves in Vietnam, 2006-2011.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 71-91. [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 11th out of 84 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Julian Groves, Kaxton Siu and Wai-Ip Ho (2014). ‘The “Post-80s Generation,” “Young Night Drifters,” and the Construction of “Generic” Youth Subject in Hong Kong.’ Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 829-46. [Impact Factor: Q2 and Ranked 55th out of 110 in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Julian Groves, Wai-Ip Ho and Kaxton Siu (2012). “Youth Studies and Timescape: Insights from an Ethnographic Study of ‘Young Night Drifters’ in Hong Kong's Public Housing Estates.” Youth and Society, Vol. 44, No. 4, December 2012, pp. 548-66. [Impact Factor: Q2 and Ranked 50th out of 110 in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu (2010).“Analyzing Exploitation: The Mechanisms Underpinning Low Wages and Excessive Overtime in Chinese Export Factories.” Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 42, Number 2, June 2010, pp. 167-90 [Impact Factor: Q1 and Ranked 7th out of 81 in the Area Studies Category in Journal Citation Reports 2022].
Book Chapters in English
Kaxton Siu. (2016). “Continuity and Change of the Everyday Lives of Migrant Factory Workers”, in Key Papers on Chinese Economic History Since 1949 (Vol. 4), Dillon, M. ed. Leiden/Boston: Brill: 1030-1053.
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu. (2015). “Strikes and Living Standards in Vietnam: The Impact of Global Supply Chain and Macroeconomic Policy.” In Labour Market and Industrial Relations in Vietnam, edited by Ingrid Artus, Uwe Blien, Judith Holland & Phan thi Hong Van. Munich: Nomos Bloomsbury.
Kaxton Siu (2015). “China and Vietnam: The Working and Living Conditions of Garment Workers in Comparison.” In Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective, edited by Anita Chan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 105-31.
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu (2012). “Chinese Migrant Workers: Factors Constraining the Emergence of Class Consciousness.” In China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities, edited by Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu (2011). “Made in China: Work and Wages in Walmart Supplier Factories.” In Walmart in China, edited by Anita Chan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 71-94.
Kaxton Siu (2006). “The New Labour Protest Movement in Hong Kong: the Experience of the Student-Worker Mutual Aid Campaign.” In Globalization and After, edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely. London: Sage, 2006, pp. 392-409.
Peer-Reviewed Bibliographies Chapter
Ngai Pun and Kaxton Siu (2022). “Labor and Labor Relations” Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Oxford University Press. [DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199920082-0196 ; https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199920082/obo-9780199920082-0196.xml]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters in Other Languages
陈佩华、萧裕均。2016。〈中国制造:沃尔玛中国供应厂的工作与工资〉。陈佩华编《沃尔玛在中国》。中国:復旦大学出版社。页70-96。
李越民、蕭裕均、趙永佳。2016。〈脫出主流升學軌跡的青年:他們何時懂得計劃人生〉。趙永佳、葉仲茵、李鏗編《躁動青春:香港新世代處境觀察》。香港:中華書局。
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu, “Die Entwicklung des Klassenbewusstseins chinesischer Wanderarbeiterinnen und Wanderarbeiter 1980-2010” (The Formation of Class Consciousness among Female and Male Chinese Migrant Workers between 1980 and 2010), in Wolfram Adolphi (ed.), Schönes Neues China (China’s Great Contradictions) (Karlesruhe, Germany: Das Argument Buch-Verlag, 2012), pp. 191-205. The paper also appeared in the journal Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, No. 296, 2012.
Kaxton Siu, “A Brief History of the Struggle for Standard Work Hours in Hong Kong.” Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 41, Autumn/Winter, 2011, pp. 17-40 (in Chinese).
Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu, “Sweating of Labor in Wal-Mart Supplier Factories.” Open Times, Issue 6, 2009 (in Chinese).