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Building China : Informal Work and the New Precariat /

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living i...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Swider, Sarah Christine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Building China and the making of a new working class
  • The hukou system, migration and the construction industry
  • Mediated employment : a city of walls
  • Embedded employment : a city of 232 villages
  • Individual employment : a city of violence
  • Protest and organizing among informal workers under restrictive regimes
  • Informal precarious workers, protests and precarious authoritarianism.