Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.

List of contents

Preface
Series editor's foreword
Maps
Part I: Life in perspective
1. Facts, theoretical gaze, and journeys
2. Sick workers as homines sacri
Part II: Responses to marginality
3. Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick role status
4. Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance
5. Coalminers: the compromising citizenry
Part III: Sick life governed
6. Law as a technique of governmentality
7. The future of Chinese marginality
Appendix
References
Index

About the author

Wing-Chung Ho is Associate Professor at Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Summary

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Wing-Chung Ho
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781526113610
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1361-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research