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Made in China : women factory workers in a global workplace / Pun Ngai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pun, Ngai, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--China.
- Women.
- Women--China--Economic conditions.
- Factory system--China.
- Factory system.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--China.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press ; Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An ethnography of a new electronics factory in southern China, showing how rural girls are made into compliant factory workers.
- Contents:
- State meets capital
- Marching from the village
- Social body, the art of discipline, and resistance
- Becoming dagongmei
- Imagining gender and sex in the workplace
- Scream, dream, and transgression in the workplace
- Approaching a minor genre of resistance.
- Notes:
- Developed from the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-217) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 26, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9780822386759
- 0822386755
- OCLC:
- 652286859
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