The Contradictions of Market Socialism

Labour, Capital and Welfare in Privatising China and Vietnam
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7922-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy

Connecting labour and welfare transformations to broader political-economic processes – including land restructuring and financialisation – the book offers an unparalleled comparative perspective on two of the world’s most important manufacturing hubs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

T N Nguyen, Minh

Mao, Jingyu

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Ngai Pun

Introduction - Minh T. N. Nguyen and Jingyu Mao

Part 1. Reproducing Labour in Hyperflexible Accumulation

1. The Broken Dream of Autonomy in Platform Economy Work - Nguyen Duc Loc

2. The Rise of the Gig Economy and the Social Protection of Gig Workers in China - Tao Liu

3. Flexible Accumulation, Division of Labour and Hierarchisation of Care at Global Factories in Vietnam - Ngoc Luong

4. Producing the Flexible Working Subject: Seasonal bonus, the Hyper-flexibilization of Labour and Welfare Arrangement of Migrant Factory Workers in China - Jingyu Mao and Yueran Tian

Part 2. Land Restructuring and New Trajectories of Rural-Urban Mobility

5. Transforming Migrant Household Reproduction: Commuterization and Land Commodification in Central China - Yueran Tian

6. Rural Migrants, Housing Politics and the Limits of Care in Shenzhen - Yang Zhan and Ludan Zhang

7. Global Factories, Migrant Labour and Livelihoods Strategies of Industrial Workers in Vietnam - Do Ta Khanh and Pietro Masina

Part 3. Marketizing Social Provisioning, Degenerating the Social Contract

8. From Welfare Housing to Real Estate: A Generational Perspective of the Financialisation of Urban State Workers’ Housing in China’s Steel Industry - Catrina Schwendener

9. ‘Building giant nests to host the eagle’: Employment, housing and family organization of workers throughout the expansion of FDI corporation in Ho Chi Minh City - Pham Thanh Thoi

10. The Politics of Care in Bilateral Labour Migration: the Case of Collateral Deposits for Contract-Based Vietnamese Workers to Republic of Korea - Huong Thu Nguyen

11. Eroding State Social Protection in Vietnam: Labour Legislation, Cicada Capital, Welfare - Angie Ngoc Tran

Part 4. Contestations and Disengagements

12. The Narratives of Sacrifice: The Third Front and The Left-behinded - Fan Zhang

13. Early withdrawal of social insurance and contestations over welfare rights in Vietnam - Tu Phuong Nguyen

Über Autor(innen)

Mao, Jingyu
Jingyu Mao is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh.

Minh T. N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

Jingyu Mao is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.