Unknotting the heart : unemployment and therapeutic governance in China /
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The "Heart" of China's Economy
- Part I. Therapeutic Governance
- 1. Happiness and Self-Reflexivity as Therapy
- 2. "We Help You Help Yourself"
- 3. Sending "Warmth" and Therapy
- 4. Thought Work and Talk Therapy
- Part II. Gender and Psychological Labor
- 5. Peiliao and Psychological Labor
- 6. Job Burnout or Suppressed Anger?
- Conclusion. Therapeutic Politics And Kindly Power
- Notes
- References
- Index.