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New masters, new servants : migration, development, and women workers in China / Yan Hairong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yan, Hairong.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees--China--Social conditions.
- Women household employees.
- Rural women--Employment--China.
- Rural women.
- Rural-urban migration--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnographic study of the migration of rural Chinese women to urban areas to serve as domestic laborers.
- Contents:
- 1. The emaciation of the rural : "No way out"
- 2. Mind and body, gender and class
- 3. Suzhi as a new human value : neoliberal governance of labor migration
- 4. A mirage of modernity : pas de deux of consumption and production
- 5. Self-development and the specter of class
- 6. The economic law and liminal subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388654
- 0822388650
- OCLC:
- 308677462
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