Unknotting the heart : unemployment and therapeutic governance in China /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yang, Jie, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Unemployment > China > Beijing > Psychological aspects.
Unemployed > Counseling of > China > Beijing.
Psychology, Industrial > Political aspects > China > Beijing.
Labor policy > China > Beijing > Psychological aspects.
Counseling psychology > Government policy > China > Beijing.
Counseling > Emploi > Chine > Pékin.
Psychologie du travail > Aspect politique > Chine > Pékin.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > Chine > Pékin > Aspect psychologique.
Psychologie du counseling > Politique gouvernementale > Chine > Pékin.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Unemployed > Counseling of
Unemployment > Psychological aspects
Changping Qu (Beijing, China)
China > Beijing > Changping Qu
China > Beijing
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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