Colours of money, shades of pride : historicities and moral politics in industrial conflicts in Hong Kong / Fred Y.L. Chiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiu, Fred Y. L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strikes and lockouts--Clock and watch industry--China--Hong Kong.

Strikes and lockouts.

Sit-down strikes--China--Hong Kong.

Sit-down strikes.

Labor disputes--China--Hong Kong.

Labor disputes.

Labor disputes--Social aspects--China--Hong Kong.

Blue collar workers--China--Hong Kong--Attitudes.

Blue collar workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In June 1986, a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked an unprecedented sit-in by 300 of the women employed at the plant. The sit-in lasted for 13 days and accounted for over half the days lost to labour unrest that year.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

Cast of characters

Map

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Hong Kong and the Japan watch multinational: the political economy of profit-generating machines on a capitalist periphery

Chapter 3. On methodologies and procedures

Chapter 4. The ethnographic narrative I before the event

Chapter 5. The ethnographic narrative II curing the event

Chapter 6. The ethnographic narrative III after the event

Chapter 7. The reflexive narratives strategic dialogues and dialogical strategies, narratives of the coming-into-consciousness of being historical agents

Chapter 8. Opening up, by way of an epilogue

Appendix: Selected reports from the press - the journalistic construction of reality as discursive practice

Works cited.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-427).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

988-220-080-X

1-282-70583-0

9786612705830

OCLC:

651049531