Gender and the South China Miracle Two Worlds of Factory Women

Name: Gender and the South China Miracle Two Worlds of Factory Women
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ISBN: 9780520211278

ISBN-10: 0520211278

ISBN-13: 9780520211278

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ching Kwan Lee

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Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as Ching Kwan Lee demonstrates in her unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different. In this rich comparative…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 221
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the author of Gender and the South China Miracle and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.



List of Illustrations


Preface



Two Worlds of Labor in South China



Engendering Production Politics in Global Capitalism



Economic Restructuring and the Remaking of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Nexus



Social Organization of the Labor Market in Shenzhen



Social Organization of the Labor Market in Hong Kong



Localistic Despotism



Familial Hegemony



Toward a Feminist Theory of Production Politics


Methodological App.: The Ethnographic Labyrinth


Notes


Bibliography


Index