Gender and the South China Miracle - Two Worlds of Factory Women

Informationen zum Autor Ching Kwan Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Klappentext "An excellent comparative ethnography of gender and factory work in South China."-Ruth Milkman! author of Farewell to the Factory Zusammenfassung Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation. This comparative ethnography describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface 1. Two Worlds of Labor in South China 2. Engendering Production Politics in Global Capitalism 3· Economic Restructuring and the Remaking of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Nexus 4· Social Organization of the Labor Market in Shenzhen 5· Social Organization of the Labor Market in Hong Kong go 6. Localistic Despotism 7· Familial Hegemony 8. Toward a Feminist Theory of Production Politics Methodological Appendix: The Ethnographic Labyrinth Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ching Kwan Lee, Lee Ching Kwan
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9780520211278
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21127-8
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Industrial arbitration and negotiation