20世纪的中国经历了一系列根本性政治变革，从推翻帝制的辛亥革命到共产党取得全国政权，所有这些变革都曾受到工人运动的极大影响。
《上海罢工：中国工人政治研究》这部专著在广泛吸收欧美工人问题研究成果的基础上，将工人政治放在比较的角度加以研究，以一种更普遍的眼光关注罢工、工会、政党等问题，探讨了工人的文化与生活状况，为人们展示了一幅20世纪上半叶中国工人丰富多彩的画像。

This study focuses on the status and prospects of collective bargaining in China based on lessons learned from the post-war United States and Germany. The author regards collective bargaining as a type of core wage regulation that emerged from production regimes at the factory level and from economic and labor policies of the state. This analysis compares the production regimes and the state-labor-capital relations in China today with the U.S. and German models in order to identify the missing links as well as potential driving forces in the current system of collective contract in China. Finally, the author proposes an ideal model of collective bargaining in China, one that offers solutions to a more just and sustainable trajectory of industrial development and that tailors to the power status of the major actors in industrial relations.

The United States, Germany, and Japan - the world's three most powerful and successful free market societies - differ strikingly in how their governments relate to their economies. Comparing Policy Networks reports the results of collaborative research by three teams investigating the social organization and policymaking processes of national labor policy domains in the United States, Germany, and Japan during the 1980s. The researchers gathered information about policy goals, communication patterns, and political support connections from 350 key national organizations, including labor unions, business associations, public interest groups, government agencies, and political parties. These networks reveal similar conflict divisions between business and labor interests, but also distinctive patterns within each nation. Unique combinations of informal policy-making networks and the national political institutions may in part explain the differences in power structures and legislative decisions.

本书对韩国从出口导向型工业化开始到20世纪90年代末劳工运动的发展历程进行了研究，关注的焦点是文化和政治给第一代产业工人带来的冲击和他们的斗争模式。
《韩国工人》展现了一部令人着迷的历史。描述了发展中国家一种最具战斗性的工人运动在克服不利的文化和专制的工作条件的同时形成阶级意识的过程。同时，具海根恰逢其时的分析也向我们展示，随着向民主制度的过渡，新的大韩劳动组合协议会在政治上的成功，同时伴随着集体认同发生某种程度的削弱。
由于对于社会科学理论的充分了解，具海根对现代韩国的阶级形成作出了分析敏锐且体察入微、富有同情心的论述。由此，他对学术研究作出了杰出的贡献，令世界各地有关的劳工运动活动家和研究人员很感兴趣。

建筑工人，干着最苦最累的活，却拿着最低最难要的工资。他们为城市的繁荣献出了青春、健康甚至生命。然而为了争取一点血汗钱，他们甚至需要爬上高楼寻求自杀以引起关注。房地产建筑行业作为拉动内需的龙头而备受瞩目，但这种经济增长背后疯狂的资本积累、对建筑从业人员的各种社会伤害却常常被忽视。建筑工，这个民工中规模最大、命运最惨的群体，吸引了本书作者潘毅教授及其团队的目光。两年来，他们深入工地、访谈工人并随工人返乡，访问了近百户建筑工家庭，获得了详细的第一手材料。书内，潘毅博士将通过自己的观察和分析来透视建筑业农民工阶层形成背后的故事。