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Occupational health and social estrangement in China

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ho, Wing-Chung
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Occupational health and social estrangement in China; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Series editorâ#x80;#x99;s foreword; Maps; Part Iâ#x80;#x82;Life in perspective; 1 Facts, theoretical gaze, and journeys; 2 Sick workers as homines sacri; Part IIâ#x80;#x82;Responses to marginality; 3 Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick role status; 4 Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance; 5 Sick coal miners: the compromising citizenry; Part IIIâ#x80;#x82;Sick life governed; 6 Law as a technique of Chinese governmentality.
  • 7 Conclusion: the future of Chinese marginalityAppendix; References; Index.