Gender and the south China miracle : two worlds of factory women /

This study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border demonstrates how two different factory cultures have emerged from profound economic change. It concludes that the differences in the gender politics of the two labour markets determine the culture of each factory.

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Lee, Ching Kwan
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1998.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711664
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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
  • 6. Localistic despotism
  • 7. Familial hegemony
  • 8. Toward a feminist theory of production politics
  • Methodological appendix
  • The ethnographic labyrinth
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.