Living rooms as factories : class, gender, and the satellite factory system in Taiwan = [Ke ting ji gong chang] / Ping-Chun Hsiung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsiung, Ping-Chun, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home labor--Taiwan.

Home labor.

Women--Employment--Taiwan.

Women.

Working class--Taiwan.

Working class.

Women--Employment.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Ke ting ji gong chang

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewelry boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home--"Living Rooms as Factories."

Contents:

1 Taiwan's Economic Miracle 23

2 "Living Rooms as Factories": Women, the State, and Taiwan's Economic Development 47

3 The Satellite Factory System from Within 65

4 Women, Marriage, and Family in the Satellite Factory System 89

5 The Everyday Construction of an Economic Miracle: Labor Control on the Shop Floor 111

6 Are Women Really "Petty Minded"? Awareness, Compliance, and Resistance in the Workplace 129.

Notes:

Parallel title in Chinese characters.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.

ISBN:

1566393892

1566393906

OCLC:

33408197