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Gender and the south China miracle : two worlds of factory women / Ching Kwan Lee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520920040
  • 052092004X
  • 0585047650
  • 9780585047652
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and the south China miracle.DDC classification:
  • 331.4/87/095127 21
LOC classification:
  • HD6059.H78 L44 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.

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.

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.

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English.

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