New masters, new servants : migration, development, and women workers in China /

Show other versions (1)

Ethnographic study of the migration of rural Chinese women to urban areas to serve as domestic laborers.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yan, Hairong
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Duke backfile
Subjects:
Women household employees > China > Social conditions.
Rural women > Employment > China.
Rural-urban migration > China.
Employées de maison > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Femmes en milieu rural > Travail > Chine.
Exode rural > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Rural-urban migration
Rural women > Employment
Women household employees > Social conditions
China
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The emaciation of the rural : "No way out"
  • 2. Mind and body, gender and class
  • 3. Suzhi as a new human value : neoliberal governance of labor migration
  • 4. A mirage of modernity : pas de deux of consumption and production
  • 5. Self-development and the specter of class
  • 6. The economic law and liminal subjects.

Similar Items