Youngrong's article, Class Identity vs. Intersectional Solidarities: Divergent Models for Organizing Gig Workers in Seoul and Toronto, published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology in 2025, received the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association of Korean Sociologists in America (AKSA). The award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a graduate student on topics related to Korea and the Korean diaspora. The article provides a comparative analysis of how union organizing strategies among gig workers in Seoul and Toronto are co-constructed through distinct configurations of class, race, gender, and migration, as well as the histories of the unions themselves. It contributes to broader debates on transnational labour politics, intersectional organizing among precarious workers, and the possibilities of building solidarity across differences among workers. You can read Youngrong's article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00207152241312904
Congratulations to Youngrong on this well-deserved recognition!