Building China : : Informal Work and the New Precariat /

Building China : : Informal Work and the New Precariat / / Sarah Swider.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Swider, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 8 halftones, 2 line figures, 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Building China and the Making of a New Working Class
  • 2. The Hukou System, Migration, and the Construction Industry
  • 3. Mediated Employment
  • 4. Embedded Employment
  • 5. Individual Employment
  • 6. Protest and Organizing among Informal Workers under Restrictive Regimes
  • 7. Informal Precarious Workers, Protests, and Precarious Authoritarianism
  • Appendix A. Methods, Sampling, and Access
  • Appendix B. List of Construction Sites
  • Appendix C. List of Interviews
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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