Youbin Kang is Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her scholarly work speaks to debates in labor sociology, urban sociology, global sociology, and critical scholarship on race, class and gender. Her dissertation research is a comparative project on transit workers in South Korea and the United States. Her work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the American Sociological Association. Her writing has been published in Jacobin Magazine, the International Labour Review and in several book chapters.