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Author Swider, Sarah Christine, author

Title Building China : informal work and the new precariat / Sarah Swider
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015

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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
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. Swider shows how these migrants members of the global "precariat, " an emergent social force based on vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty are changing China's class structure and what this means for the prospects for an independent labor movement.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Construction workers -- China
Construction industry -- China
Informal sector (Economics) -- China
Migrant labor -- China
Labor movement -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Construction industry
Construction workers
Informal sector (Economics)
Labor movement
Migrant labor
Arbeitnehmer
Migration
Bauwirtschaft
Saisonarbeiter
China
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501701726
150170172X