Preface; Abbreviations; Cast of Characters; Map; Chapter 1; 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 (Day -35 to Day -2); Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Narrative II: During the Event (Day-2 to Day+1); Chapter 6. The Ethnographic Narrative III: After the Event (Day +1 to April 1987 and beyond)
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
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