Working in China ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond...
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London :
Routledge
2006.
2017. |
| Colección: | Asia's transformations.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429707706719 |
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- Front Cover; Working in China; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Mapping the terrain of Chinese labor ethnography: Ching Kwan Lee; Part I: Remaking class and community; 2. The unmaking of the Chinese working class in the northeastern rustbelt: Ching Kwan Lee; 3. "Social positions": neighborhood transitions after danwei: Siân Victoria Liu; 4. Rural "guerrilla" workers and home renovation in urban China: Lei Guang; 5. A tale of two sales floors: changing service-work regimes in China: Amy Hanser; Part II: Gendering service work
- 6. Virtual personalism in Beijing: learning deference and femininity at a global luxury hotel: Eileen M. Otis7. From peasant women to bar hostesses: An ethnography of China's karaoke sex industry: Tiantian Zheng; 8. Rurality and labor process autonomy: the waged labor of domestic service: Yan Hairong; Part III: New professions and knowledge workers; 9. The practice of law as an obstacle to justice: Chinese lawyers at work: Ethan Michelson; 10. Outsourcing as a way of life?: Knowledge transfer in the Yangtze Delta: Andrew Ross
- 11. Nationalism, theft, and management strategies in the information industry of mainland China: Dimitri Kessler12. Honing the desired attitude: Ideological work on insurance sales agents: Cheris Shun-Ching Chan; Index
