Mapping China

Peasants, Migrant Workers and Informal Labor
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32637-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China

This collection includes seven articles from the journal Open Times, a window into contemporary Chinese academic trends. All the articles deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has a different emphasis.

It illustrates various ways that people from a countryside make use of local social resources to seek out ways to making a living. In these models, we can still see traditional social networks, various degrees of ties based on kinship and locality, and the existence of humans as social groups. It also analyzes Dagongmei’s collective actions to fight against the capital and patriarchy, workers’ collective resistance at OEM factories, and the impacts of labor migration on rural poverty and inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Chongqing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Foreword
Li Huaiyin and Wu Chongqing

Introduction
Wu Chongqing

1 Small Farming in the Market Economy: A Study of a Village in Shandong, and Its Theoretical Significance
Gao Yuan
2 “Beyond the Boundary”: A Countermovement to the Hollowing-out of Rural China
Wu Chongqing
3 Social Ties and the Market: A Study of Digital Printing Industry from an Informal Economy Perspective
Tan Tongxue
4 Discursive Dyslexia and the Articulation of Class: A Theoretical Perspective on China’s Young Female Migrant Workers (Dagongmei)
Pun Ngai
5 The Class Formation: Control of Capital and Collective Resistance of Chinese Construction Workers
Pun Ngai, Lu Huilin, and Zhang Huipeng
6 Internet Mobilizing and Workers’ Collective Resistance at OEM Factories
Wang Jianhua
7 The Impacts of Labor Migration on Rural Poverty and Inequality
Tan Shen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chongqing Wu, Ph.D. (1964), is Professor of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University. He has published monographs and articles on China, including The Path to the Sun Village (Law Press) and Baseless Society of Acquaintance and Social Reconstruction (Social Sciences Academic Press).