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Author Pun, Ngai, 1970- author.

Title Made in China : women factory workers in a global workplace / Pun Ngai
Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press ; Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary An ethnography of a new electronics factory in southern China, showing how rural girls are made into compliant factory workers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index
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Subject Women -- Employment -- China
Women -- China -- Economic conditions
Factory system -- China
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- China
Women -- Employment -- China -- Case studies
Factory system -- China -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Factory system.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Employment.
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Arbeiterin
Industriearbeit
Sozialer Wandel
China.
China
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386759
0822386755
1932643184
9781932643183