Ngai Made in China

Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8675-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

An ethnography of a new electronics factory in southern China, showing how rural girls are made into compliant factory workers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ngai, Pun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. State Meets Capital: The Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class 23

2. Marching from the Village: Women's Struggles between Work and Family 49

3. The Social Body, the Art of Discipline and Resistance 77

4. Becoming Dagongmei: Politics of Identities and Differences 109

5. Imagining Sex and Gender in the Workplace 133

6. Scream, Dream, and Transgression in the Workplace 165

7. Approaching a Minor Genre of Resistance 189

Notes 197

References 205

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Pun Ngai is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is coeditor of Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City and the founder and chair of the Chinese Working Women Network, a grassroots organization of migrant women factory workers in China.For more information regarding the Chinese Working Women Network, please click here.