Building China : Informal Work and the New Precariat /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swider, Sarah Christine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Saisonarbeiter
Bauwirtschaft
Migration
Arbeitnehmer
Migrant labor.
Labor movement.
Informal sector (Economics)
Construction workers.
Construction industry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Mouvement ouvrier > Chine.
Travailleurs migrants > Chine.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Chine.
Construction > Industrie > Chine.
Ouvriers de la construction > Chine.
Labor movement > China.
Migrant labor > China.
Informal sector (Economics) > China.
Construction industry > China.
Construction workers > China.
China
China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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