Hairong Yan

New Masters, New Servants

Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographic study of the migration of rural Chinese women to urban areas to serve as domestic laborers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343042
• ISBN-10: 0822343045
• Artikelnr.: 23879648

Autorenporträt

Yan Hairong

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Introduction 1
1. The Emaciation of the Rural: "No Way Out" 25
2. Mind and Body, Gender and Class 53
Part I. "Intellectuals' Burdens" and Domestic Labor 57
Part II. Searching for the Proper Baomu 80
Intermezzo 1. A Survey of Employers 109
3. Suzhi as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration 111
Intermezzo 2. Urban Folklore on Neoliberalism 139
4. A Mirage of Modernity: Pas de Deux of Consumption and Production 145
5. Self-Development and the Specter of Class 187
Intermezzo 3. Diary and Song 217
6. The Economic Law and Liminal Subjects 221
Notes 251
References 287
Index 307