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Author Kim, Jaesok, author.

Title Chinese labor in a Korean factory : class, ethnicity, and productivity on the shop floor in globalizing China / Jaesok Kim
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Contents The politics of spatial divisions and the living environment -- The politics of nationality, ethnicity, and status : the case of the factory office -- The making of Chinese industrial workers -- Korean management in a Chinese workshop : economic globalization and the changing factory regime -- Pitfalls of globalization : local government and its impact on the factory regime -- Clash of the global and the local -- Globalizing capital and the bleak future of Chinese workers
Summary This title draws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC struggled with the pressure to be increasingly profitable while negotiating the clash of Korean and Chinese cultures traditions, and classes on the factory floor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Corporations, South Korean -- China -- Qingdao -- Sociological aspects
International business enterprises -- China -- Qingdao -- Sociological aspects
Clothing factories -- China -- Qingdao -- Case studies
Sweatshops -- China -- Qingdao -- Case studies
Industrial relations -- China -- Qingdao -- Case studies
Labor and globalization -- China -- Qingdao -- Case studies
Business anthropology -- China -- Qingdao -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Business anthropology
Clothing factories
Industrial relations
Labor and globalization
Sweatshops
China -- Qingdao
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012034936
ISBN 0804786127
9780804786126