Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform

By: F. Xu

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Hardcover | 1 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform studies unmarried women migrant workers in China. As international migrants in China's richest province, they work in silk, one of China's oldest and most symbolically-charged industries. Through extensive interviews and a wide-ranging interpretation of the secondary literature, this book brings an interdisciplinary approach to its study of power and identity. Gender, class, and local identities matter in the factories and streets of a one-industry town, and municipal and factory leaders seek to rework these over-shifting forces to build a low-cost, reliable labour force. The women in question seek to rework these disadvantages by the same forces, have other aspirations!

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List of Maps
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Acronyms
Introduction	p. 1
Statement of thesis	p. 3
Project specificities	p. 4
China's economic reform	p. 13
A critical approach to nationalism	p. 16
Method and theory	p. 19
The intersection of gender, class and place of origin	p. 25
Personal interest and field research	p. 28
The 'Strategic Silence' and 'Tactical Noise' in Economic Reform	p. 33
Nationalism and economic reform	p. 38
Reform policies and gender	p. 42
Reconfiguring femininity and masculinity	p. 51
'Emergent Classes' and Sicheng Society	p. 58
Theorizing class in a socialist context	p. 63
Mao's class analysis and revolution strategies	p. 72
The 'emergent class structure' of economic reform in Sicheng	p. 80
Construction of jingshen wenmin	p. 97
Building Material and Spiritual Civilization in Sicheng	p. 102
Sicheng's political economy in historical and spatial context	p. 110
The Jiangnan vs. Subei discourse: place of origin in the construction of identities	p. 117
The hukou system: marker of insiders and outsiders	p. 122
Flexible accumulation and construction of gender in migration: some comparisons	p. 125
New Factory Women in Time and Space	p. 129
The gender division of labour in silk production	p. 130
Gender, kinship and households	p. 138
A Close Watch in a Tight Space: Multiple Foci of Labour Control	p. 154
Job hierarchies based on gender and place of origin	p. 160
Labour discipline in time: piece-rate	p. 165
The disciplinary power of space: the factory compound	p. 169
Thought work as disciplinary power	p. 171
Workers' resistance for daily survival	p. 176
Identities of Women Migrant Workers: The Intersection of Gender, Class and Place of Origin	p. 180
The construction of migrant workers as 'Other'	p. 181
The state regulatory mechanisms	p. 183
Managerial control after work hours: 'free' time regulated	p. 186
Workers' mediation of mixed identities	p. 189
Women migrant workers: challenging boundaries	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 199
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 234
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