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Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Pun Ngai
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Description for Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Paperback. An ethnography of an electronics factory in southern China, showing how rural girls are made into compliant factory workers. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 photos, 5 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. ... Read more
As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781932643008
SKU
V9781932643008
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Pun Ngai
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
[A] remarkable book. . . . [A] vivid and persuasive first-hand account of life in China's factories in the late 20th century. . . . [A]nyone who cares about East Asia today, and tomorrow, should read [this book].
Bradley Winterton
Taipei Times
Made in China is an important inter-disciplinary contribution to the body of literature ... Read more
Bradley Winterton
Taipei Times
Made in China is an important inter-disciplinary contribution to the body of literature ... Read more