His research examines the politics of class formation and how they vary over time and across space. He is especially interested in globalization and marketization, race and migration, labor and social movements, protest and community politics, and the causes and consequences of precarity. He is the author of numerous articles and editor of "Politics of Precarity: Critical Engagements with Guy Standing," a speical issue of Global Labor Journal (Vol. 7, No. 2 [2016]).