New Masters, New Servants : Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China /

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On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China's Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yan, Hairong (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Rural women > Employment > China.
Rural-urban migration > China.
Women household employees > China > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Emaciation of the Rural: "No Way Out"
  • 2. Mind and Body, Gender and Class
  • Part I. "Intellectuals' Burdens" and Domestic Labor
  • Part II. Searching for the Proper Baomu
  • Intermezzo 1. A Survey of Employers
  • 3. Suzhi as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration
  • Intermezzo 2. Urban Folklore on Neoliberalism
  • 4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production
  • 5. Self-Development and the Specter of Class
  • Intermezzo 3. Diary and Song
  • 6. The Economic Law and Liminal Subjects
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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