Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781501701726
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150170172X
Inhalt:
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, and labor contractors. This ethnography focuses on the lives, work, family, and social relations of construction workers. It adds to our understanding of China's new working class, the deepening rural-urban divide, and the growing number of undocumented migrants working outside the protection of labor laws and regulation. Swider shows how these migrants members of the global "precariat, " an emergent social force based on vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty are changing China's class structure and what this means for the prospects for an independent labor movement.--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Building China and the making of a new working class -- The hukou system, migration and the construction industry -- Mediated employment : a city of walls -- Embedded employment : a city of 232 villages -- Individual employment : a city of violence -- Protest and organizing among informal workers under restrictive regimes -- Informal precarious workers, protests and precarious authoritarianism.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Swider, Sarah Christine Building China ISBN 9780801454158
Sprache:
Englisch
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