Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination

Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam

Kaxton Siu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-329-125-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives. It examines the rise of a male migrant working population in the export industries, a shift in material and social lives of migrant workers, and the emergence of a new non-coercive factory regime in the industries. By conducting on-site fieldwork regarding Hong Kong-invested garment factories in south China, Hong Kong and Vietnam, alongside factory-gate surveys in China and Vietnam, this book examines how and why the circumstances of workers in these localities are dissimilar even when under the same type of factory ownership. In analyzing workers’ lives within and outside factories, and the expansion of global capitalism in East and Southeast Asia, the book contributes to research on production politics and everyday life practice, and an understanding of how global and local forces interact.

Kaxton Siu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He researches on labor and migration in China, Vietnam, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Politics and Society, China Journal, Youth and Society, and British Journal of Social Work.

Introduction: Modes of Domination over Chinese Migrant Industrial Workers.- Hong Kong Female Garment Workers and China's Open Door.- Chinese Migrant Workers' Everyday Lives in the Early 1990s and Late 2000s.- State-Endorsed Exploitation and a Segmented Labor Market in Shenzhen's Garment Industry.- Power and Domination in the Chinese Garment Workplace.- A Comparative Perspective: Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Ho Chi Minh City.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies
Zusatzinfo	14 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 232 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	981-329-125-7 / 9813291257
ISBN-13	978-981-329-125-6 / 9789813291256
Zustand	Neuware