Wing-Chung Ho

Occupational health and social estrangement in China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.

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Produktdetails

• New Ethnographies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781526113610
• ISBN-10: 1526113619
• Artikelnr.: 48812687

Autorenporträt

Wing-Chung Ho is Associate Professor at Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Series editor's foreword Maps Part I: Life in perspective 1. Facts,
theoretical gaze, and journeys 2. Sick workers as homines sacri Part II:
Responses to marginality 3. Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick
role status 4. Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance
5. Coalminers: the compromising citizenry Part III: Sick life governed 6.
Law as a technique of governmentality 7. The future of Chinese marginality
Appendix References Index