Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gail E. Henderson and Barbara Entwisle.
  • Work and household in Chinese culture: historical perspectives / Susan Mann.
  • Re-drawing the boundaries at work: views on the meaning of work (Gongzuo) / Gail E. Henderson [and others]
  • What is work? Comparative perspectives from the social sciences / Rachel A. Rosenfeld.
  • The changing meanings of work in China / Stevan Harrell.
  • Local meanings of gender and work in rural Shaanxi in the 1950s / Gail Hershatter.
  • Iron girls revisited: gender and the politics of work in the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 / Emily Honig.
  • Wage and job inequalities in the working lives of men and women in Tianjin / Yanjie Bian, John R. Logan, and Xiaoling Shu.
  • Gender differentials in economic success: rural China in 1991 / Ethan Michelson and William L. Parish.
  • The perils of assessing trends in gender inequality in China / Martin King Whyte.
  • The interplay of gender, space, and work in China's floating population / Li Zhang.
  • Interconnection among gender, work, and migration: evidence from Zhejiang Province / Xiushi Yang.
  • Migration, gender, and labor force in Hubei Province, 1985-1990 / Sidney Goldstein, Zai Liang, and Alice Goldstein.
  • Gendered migration and the migration of genders in contemporary China / Wang Feng.
  • Reconfiguring Shanghai households / Deborah S. Davis.
  • Household economies in transitional times / Barbara Entwisle [and others]
  • Understanding the social inequality system and family and household dynamics in China / Nan Lin.
  • Conclusion: Re-drawing boundaries / Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson.