中國正處身一個競爭激烈的全球市場，不但走上發展經濟的高速公路，更重新定義了全球資本主義的發展軌道。出生在後社會主義時代的八、九十後新生代農民工，滿懷夢想地踏上進城打工的不歸路，卻發現了「風光」背後的另一種現實，美好的願望灰飛煙滅。年輕工人的夢想為何與經濟增長充滿矛盾？ 本書的作者聯同20所大學的教師和學生組成研究組，於2010至2014年間對富士康及其工人、全球生產鏈、國家與企業的關係等，展開了為期四年的大規模調查和研究，期望通過受訪工人的眼睛呈現出高科技世界工廠的不公體制，並審問蘋果和其他與富士康合作的公司，為何對工人的訴求置若罔聞。 作者通過深入的調查，全面記錄了富士康工人如夢魘般的經歷，並見證工人正不斷地通過抗爭行動，形塑一個新工人階級。同時，本書亦會向讀者展示富士康的中國工人，以及其他被捲入全球製造業生產鏈之中的勞動者，如何鑄造了世界勞工政治的新圖像。 本書與英語、意大利語和西班牙語版同步出版。

本书是关于北京城郊村村民生计选择、社会行动与村落生活的民俗志研究，所描绘的主要是近十几年来京村的日常生活和村民的生计选择，并分析内在和外在于村落社会的各种力量及其运作过程。本书认为正是这些力量创造和维系了我们今天所看到的相对稳定的社会结构。在这种相对稳定的社会结构里，当地人和流动人口在这里生生不息、经久不衰。具体来说，本书倾向于从微观层面剖析村落社区里人们的日常生活和行动安排，以及近距离观察城郊村社会的运作方式，同时也致力于挖掘出个体生活史中被传统集体叙事埋没的声音，以解构目的论建构对个体生存状态的漠视。

本书从马克思、韦伯等理论家对“非自由劳动力”与“自由工人”的区分出发，提出“结构性自由”的概念。并试图将此概念发展成为一种分析工具，以讨论全球人口流动中引人瞩目的技术移民现象。通过在新加坡对来自中国的半导体工程师群体所做的田野调查，本书揭示了移民在跨国就业和生活中的自由与限制。通过流动、工作、生活、家庭等领域的整体性讨论，本书将这个群体跨国生活中的“结构性自由”的两个层次揭示了出来。背后是各类主体如何参与到持续的划界活动中，进而再造出变化的结构性。结论部分讨论了背后的“结构性”是如何生产出来，以及移民形成了怎样的“主体性”，并延伸讨论了这一概念对于流动人口研究的意义，比如在我国东西、城乡、民族人口流动的研究有何借鉴等。

邓小平的伟大改革，把中国带入了有史以来最为刻也最为广泛的变革时期。在这场变革中，中国社会的一切领域，无一例外，都在经历着空前的巨变！经过20年的无畏探索和艰苦卓绝的努力，在经济领域，建设社会主义市场经济的改革蓝图已经十分明确，剩下的仅仅是如何尽快地使这一蓝图成为现实的问题，或者说是时间问题；在政治领域，尽管改革依旧任重道远，但是建设社会主义民主的改革方向也已经确定；只有在社会领域之中，改革的方向和蓝图都还十分模糊。然而人类的实践一再表明，没有一个健全的社会领域的支持，市场经济和民主政治都无法有效进行。可以说，时至今日，中国的改革已经进入了这样一个时期，如果没有社会领域的深刻变革，那么市场化改革和社会主义民主建设的进程都将受到影响。也就是说，社会领域的变革已经成为制约中国整体改革事业的关键因素。
现代社会的社会组织可以分为三大类，即政府组织、营利组织和非营利组织，它们分别是政治领域、经济领域和社会领域的主要组织形式。所谓“第三部门”就是非营利组织的集合。由于社会领域的状态主要取决于第三部门的状态，所以说有效的市场体制和民主政治离不开发达的第三部门的支持，而研究第三部门的发展并通过这种研究推动第三部门的发展，已经成为今日中国面对的最紧迫的“时代任务”之一。
我们组织这项研究的目的，不仅仅在于增加几部有关第三部门研究的出版物，更为重要的是，要为这一新兴的研究领域积聚队伍、积累成果、涵养资源，为中国第三部门研究领域的开拓和长期发展贡献自己的微薄之力。
对于中国的学术界来说，作为理论研究的对象，“第三部门”还是一个极为陌生的领域。通过这项研究，我们吸引了一批国内第一流的学者投身这一领域的研究，其中一些学者在海内外享有较高的声誉，拥有很大的影响力和号召力。
对于中国青基会来说，资助和组织高水平的、超前性的学术研究活动，既是一项重要的组织职能，也是一个长期的组织目标。今后，本着对社会的整体利益和长期利益负责的原则，中国青基会还将继续支持对中国的现代化建设具有重大意义的学术研究活动，继续资助建设性的国际交流活动。

Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work.
"Follow your passion" is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this "passion principle"—seductive as it is—does not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality.
Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated. Passion-seeking presumes middle-class safety nets and springboards and penalizes first-generation and working-class young adults who seek passion without them. The ripple effects of this mantra undermine the promise of college as a tool for social and economic mobility. The passion principle also feeds into a culture of overwork, encouraging white-collar workers to tolerate precarious employment and gladly sacrifice time, money, and leisure for work they are passionate about. And potential employers covet, but won't compensate, passion among job applicants. This book asks, What does it take to center passion in career decisions? Who gets ahead and who gets left behind by passion-seeking? The Trouble with Passion calls for citizens, educators, college administrators, and industry leaders to reconsider how we think about good jobs and, by extension, good lives.

In 1970, a sixty-five-year-old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement. Taking inspiration from the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, Kuhn and her cohorts created an activist organization that quickly gained momentum as the Gray Panthers. After receiving national publicity for her efforts-she even appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson-she gained thousands of supporters, young and old. Their cause expanded to include universal health care, nursing home reform, affordable and accessible housing, defense of Social Security, and elimination of nuclear weapons. Gray Panthers traces the roots of Maggie Kuhn's social justice agenda to her years as a YWCA and Presbyterian Church staff member. It tells the nearly forty-year story of the intergenerational grassroots movement that Kuhn founded and its scores of local groups. During the 1980s, more than one hundred chapters were tackling local and national issues. By the 1990s the ranks of older members were thinning and most young members had departed, many to pursue careers in public service. But despite its challenges, including Kuhn's death in 1995, the movement continues today. Roger Sanjek examines Gray Panther activism over four decades. Here the inner workings and dynamics of the movement emerge: the development of network leadership, local projects and tactics, conflict with the national office, and the intergenerational political ties that made the group unique among contemporary activist groups. Part ethnography, part history, part memoir, Gray Panthers draws on archives and interviews as well as the author's thirty years of personal involvement. With the impending retirement of the baby boomers, Sanjek's book will surely inform the debates and discussions to follow: on retirement, health care, and many other aspects of aging in a society that has long valued youth above all.

Winner of the 2016 ICQI Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardAcclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy’s world was upended completely after suffering a severe stroke when only in her late 50s. After returning home from the hospital, Speedy took to her iPad to write and draw as a way of making sense of her experience and to aid her recovery. The stunning, fragmented, poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey. It provides an alternative model of engaging the self in a research project in an evocative and artistic way. This highly original book: -uses the seemingly ordinary motif of the park opposite the author’s house as the catalyst for a wildly creative autoethnography;-includes three narratives of the author’s experience of staring at the park—an imagined murder mystery in the park, a realist ethnography of the park, and the life story (both imagined and real) of her facing her illness and recovery; -offers readers a poetic and performative inquiry into the author’s new reality.

"In Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss and Resilience, Reinekke Lengelle uses her abilities as a researcher, poet, and professor of therapeutic writing to tell a heartfelt and fearless story about her grief after the death of her spouse and the year and a half following his diagnosis, illness, and passing. This book powerfully demonstrates that writing can be a companion in bereavement. It uses and explains the latest research on coming to terms with spousal loss without being prescriptive. Integrated with this contemporary research are stories, poetry, and reflections on writing as a therapeutic process. The author unflinchingly explores a number of themes that are underrepresented in existing resources: how one deals with anger associated with loss, what a healthy response might be to unfinished business with the deceased, continuing conversations with the beloved (even for agnostics and atheists), ongoing sexual desire, and secondary losses. As a rare book where an author successfully combines a personal story, heart-rending poetry, up-to-date research on grief, and an evocative exploration of taboo topics in the context of widowhood, Writing the Self in Bereavement is uniquely valuable for those grieving a spouse or other loved one, those supporting others in bereavement, and those interested in the healing power of poetry and life writing. Researchers on death and dying, grief counsellors, and autoethnographers will also benefit from reading this resonant resource on love and loss"--