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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Julie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Many thanks for sharing your new book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dr Chris Smith</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Emeritus Professor of Organisation Studies and Comparative Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dept of HRM & Organisation Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">School of Business and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Royal Holloway University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Egham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h3eUiLMAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:#467886">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h3eUiLMAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">See my most recent articles:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Zheng, Xing, Smith and Zhang (2025) Overcoming Institutional Immobility? Evaluating Employment Outcomes of Repatriated Chinese Migrants
From Overseas Civil Engineering Projects, <i>Human Resource Management Journal</i>,
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1748-8583.70007"><span style="color:#467886">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1748-8583.70007</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Zheng and Smith (2024) Mobility power and society: Managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe,
<i>European Journal of Industrial Relations </i><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596801241304089"><span style="color:#467886">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596801241304089</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Thompson and Smith (2024) Labour process theory: in and beyond the core: continuities, challenges, and choices,
<i>Work in the Global Economy</i>, <a href="https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/wge/aop/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027.xml">
<span style="color:#467886">https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/wge/aop/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027.xml</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Smith and Thompson (2024) Braverman and Labor and Monopoly Capital: A Retrospective,
<i>Contributions to Political Economy</i>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae007"><span style="color:#467886">https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae007</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Clarke and Smith (2024) ‘Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service’ in
<i>Work, Employment and Society</i> is available at </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231199415"><span style="color:#467886">https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231199415</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">New Book - with Bristol University Press, 2023</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/wheres-the-human-in-human-resource-management">Bristol University Press | Where's the ‘Human’ in Human
Resource Management? - Managing Work in the 21st Century, By Michael Gold and Chris Smith</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXT][Chern.fsw] New Book: Global Knowledge Production about China (Leiden University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I hope this message finds you well. This is Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I’m delighted to share that my new book,
<i>Global Knowledge Production about China</i> (Leiden University Press), is now available as a free open‑access publication via JSTOR. You can access it here:
</span><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/jj.36512724?utm_source=copilot.com" target="_blank" title="https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/jj.36512724?utm_source=copilot.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/jj.36512724</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The abstract is also available directly on the Leiden University Press website:
</span><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="https://lup.nl/publications/academic-research/global-knowledge-production-about-china/?utm_source=copilot.com" target="_blank" title="https://lup.nl/publications/academic-research/global-knowledge-production-about-china/?utm_source=copilot.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://lup.nl/publications/academic-research/global-knowledge-production-about-china/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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