List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Two worlds of labor in South China -- 2. Engendering production politics in global capitalism -- 3. Economic restructuring and the remaking of the Hong Kong- Guangdong Nexus -- 4. Social organization of the labor market in Shenzhen -- 5. Social organization of the labor market in Hong Kong -- 6. Localistic despotism -- 7. Familial hegemony -- 8. Toward a feminist theory of production politics -- Methodological appendix -- The ethnographic labyrinth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border demonstrates how two different factory cultures have emerged from profound economic change. It concludes that the differences in the gender politics of the two labour markets determine the culture of each factory
Notes
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index
