Working in China

Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

By: Ching Kwan Lee (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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268 Pages

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After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world''s total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages.

Working in China introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories. The mosaic of human faces, organizational dynamics and workers'' voices presented in the book reflect the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese workplace today.

Based on extraordinary and thorough field research, this book will have a wide readership at undergraduate level and beyond, appealing to students and scholars from a myriad of disciplines including Chinese studies, labour studies, sociology and political economy.

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'This is in many ways a very appealing book proposal. The various authors are steeped in research on a wide variety of occupations in contemporary China, and they all appear to be based on significant ethnographic of field interview research. The editor, Prof Lee, is very highly regards, and has a strong track record of significant publications in this area: indeed she can probably now be considred the leading person in this area.' - "Andrew Walder, Stanford University" 'I could go on about the fascination of these studies but let me just say that the editor, Ching Kwan Lee, is surely now the leading scholar of Chinese labor after her award winning book and her daring studies of labor protest. You should grab this book and out it into print as quickly as you can. It is a superb compilation of the very best of a new generaltion of China scholars' - "Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley" 'It is a terrific project, based on exciting and thorough field research, it's in great shape, and it will be widely read. I will assign it in courses on China but also on comparative labour. To put it in crass terms it will become one of your top sellers, and with very good reason. In more lofty scholarly terms, it brings together outstanding new research, incisive, persuasive analysis, great stories, and refreshing, compelling style.' - "Marc Blecher, Oberlin College"

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