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Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Feng Xu

    1. Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, USA

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 1-32

  3. The ‘Strategic Silence’ and ‘Tactical Noise’ in Economic Reform

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 33-57

  4. ‘Emergent Classes’ and Sicheng Society

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 58-101

  5. Building Material and Spiritual Civilization in Sicheng

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 102-128

  6. New Factory Women in Time and Space

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 129-153

  7. A Close Watch in a Tight Space: Multiple Foci of Labour Control

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 154-179

  8. Identities of Women Migrant Workers: The Intersection of Gender, Class and Place of Origin

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 180-198

  9. Conclusion

    • Feng Xu
    Pages 199-204

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 205-239
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Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform studies unmarried women migrant workers in China. As international migrants in China's richest province, they work in silk, one of China's oldest and most symbolically-charged industries. Through extensive interviews and a wide-ranging interpretation of the secondary literature, this book brings an interdisciplinary approach to its study of power and identity. Gender, class, and local identities matter in the factories and streets of a one-industry town, and municipal and factory leaders seek to rework these over-shifting forces to build a low-cost, reliable labour force. The women in question seek to rework these disadvantages by the same forces, have other aspirations!

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, USA

    Feng Xu

About the author

FENG XU teaches political science at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, where she also serves as director of the International Relations Program. She left China in 1990 to pursue her master's in political science at York University, Toronto, Canada, and received her doctorate there in 1998.

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