Building China : informal work and the new precariat / Sarah Swider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swider, Sarah Christine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction workers--China.

Construction workers.

Construction industry--China.

Construction industry.

Labor movement.

Migrant labor.

China.

Informal sector (Economics)--China.

Informal sector (Economics).

Migrant labor--China.

Labor movement--China.

Physical Description:

xxi, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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 in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, and labor contractors. This ethnography focuses on the lives, work, family, and social relations of construction workers. It adds to our understanding of China's new working class, the deepening rural-urban divide, and the growing number of undocumented migrants working outside the protection of labor laws and regulation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Building China and the making of a new working class

The hukou system, migration and the construction industry

Mediated employment : a city of walls

Embedded employment : a city of 232 villages

Individual employment : a city of violence

Protest and organizing among informal workers under restrictive regimes

Informal precarious workers, protests and precarious authoritarianism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801454158

0801454158

9780801456930

0801456932

OCLC:

906936478