| Description |
xiii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations ; 12 |
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Routledge studies in Asia's transformations ; 12
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| Contents |
China works : perspectives on the twentieth-century workplace / Jacob Eyferth -- Village industries and the making of rural-urban difference in early twentieth-century Shanxi / Henrietta Harrison -- Socialist deskilling : the struggle over skills in a rural craft industry, 1949-1965 / Jacob Eyferth -- Commanding heights industrialization and wage determination in the Chinese factory, 1950-1957 / Mark W. Frazier -- Industrial involution : recruitment development within the railway system / Lida Junghans -- Serving the state, serving the people : work in a post-socialist department store / Amy Hanser -- Capital's incorporation of labor rights and corporate codes of conduct in a Chinese dormitory labor regime / Pun Ngai -- Work, conformity, and defiance : strategies of resistance and control in China's township and village enterprises / Calvin Chen -- Labor on the "floating native land" : a case study of seafarers on PRC ocean-going ships / Minghua Zhao |
| Summary |
"How China Works examines the importance of labor issues by charting the changes in the Chinese workplace and the impact these have had on the future of China's economic and political system." "Drawing on original fieldwork and archival research, the book presents eight key case studies that look at the micropolitics of the workplace and the globalization of production, illustrating labor relations within a range of industries across all regions of China." |
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"The book approaches the subject area from a multidisciplinary angle, introducing concepts from labor history, politics, sociology and anthropology in the China field. The contributors argue that the understanding of work in China has been overly politicized and state-centered, and instead suggest a method of study that is grounded in workplace cultures and labor processes. How China Works provides a timely and topical addition to the current literature that will appeal to China academics in a wide range of social science disciplines."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Industrial relations -- China -- Case studies.
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Industrial policy -- China.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Economic policy -- 2000-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001557
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Eyferth, Jan Jacob Karl, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2005028516 |
| ISBN |
0415392381 hardback alkaline paper |
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