Looking For Work In Post Socialist China

Author : Feng Xu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136509698

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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China by Feng Xu Pdf

Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate in the West. This book argues that although China is not a liberal democracy, it has turned to neo-liberal forms of governance to deal with unemployment, which now function alongside pre-existing Chinese modes of governance. This book examines the initiatives which represent China’s attempt to institutionalize and humanize its approach to governance: these initiatives include training programmes; counselling; a web-based national labour-market information network; insurance; and using community (shequ) organizations as the base for new mechanisms of governance and informal job generation. Based on extensive original research including semi-structured interviews, the book discusses the ways in which the government combines the new techniques with old campaign-style policy techniques. The author argues that these multiple modes of governance make the state's power visible in the new Chinese labour market, and at the same time run the risk of policy incoherence or even failure.

Author : Feng Xu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Job hunting
ISBN : 0415559685

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Looking for Work in Post-socialist China by Feng Xu Pdf

This book examines China's attempt to institutionalize, professionalize and humanize its approach to governance, drawing heavily on international norms and standards in employment regulation. It discusses the ways in which the government combines the new techniques with old campaign-style policy techniques, which not only makes the state's power visible, but also allows it to claim credit for managing unemployment.

Author : Zhun Gu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811974946

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Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China by Zhun Gu Pdf

This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with China’s rapidly changing post-socialist society as it has been formed through three mutually constitutive frameworks: political discourse, popular culture and state-led media commercialisation. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding relationships between filmmakers, industry and the State.

Author : Alvin Y. So
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814449656

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Class and Class Conflict in Post-socialist China by Alvin Y. So Pdf

This book uses a state-centered approach to trace the historical origins, developments, and evolutions of different patterns of class conflict among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class in socialist and post-socialist China.

Author : Pun Ngai
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781509503384

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Migrant Labor in China by Pun Ngai Pdf

Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success. But who are China's workers who keep the machine running, and how is the labor process changing under economic reform? Pun Ngai, a leading expert in factory labor in China, charts the rise of China as a world workshop and the emergence of a new labor force in the context of the post-socialist transformations of the last three decades. The book analyzes the role of the state and transnational interests in creating a new migrant workforce deprived of many rights and social protection. As China increases its output of high-value, high-tech products, particularly for its own growing domestic market of middle-class consumers, workers are increasingly voicing their discontent through strikes and protest, creating new challenges for the Party-State and the global division of labor. Blending theory, politics, and real-world examples, this book will be an invaluable guide for upper-level students and non-specialists interested in China's economy and Chinese politics and society.

Author : Lijia Zhang
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307472199

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"Socialism Is Great!" by Lijia Zhang Pdf

With a great charm and spirit, “Socialism Is Great!” recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant miniature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution as the country moved from one of stark repression to a vibrant, capitalist economy.

Author : Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781487523992

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China’s Commercial Sexscapes by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang Pdf

This book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships.

Author : Abel Polese,Lela Rekhviashvili,Borbála Kovács,Jeremy Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351585187

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Post-socialist Informalities by Abel Polese,Lela Rekhviashvili,Borbála Kovács,Jeremy Morris Pdf

This book is a comprehensive collection of key scholarship on informality from the whole post-socialist region. From Bosnia to Central Asia, passing through Russia and Azerbaijan, the contributions to this volume illustrate the multi-faceted and complex nature of informality, while demonstrating the growing scholarly and policy debates that have developed around the understanding of informality. In contrast to approaches which tend to classify informality as ‘bad’ or ‘transitional’ – meaning that modernity will make it disappear – this edited volume concentrates on dynamics and mechanisms to understand and explain informality, while also debating its relationship with the market and society. The authors seek to explain informality beyond a mere monetaristic/economistic approach, rediscovering its interconnection with social phenomena to propose a more holistic interpretation of the meaning of informality and its influence in various spheres of life. They do this by exploring the evolving role of informal practices in the post-socialist region, and by focusing on informality as a social organisation determinant but also looking at the way it reshapes emergent social resistance against symbolic and real political order(s). This book was originally published as two special issues, of Caucasus Survey and the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Lynn T. White
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520367234

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Careers in Shanghai by Lynn T. White Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Xinyan Peng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000577068

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Corporate Women in Contemporary China by Xinyan Peng Pdf

Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jobs but are turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state and society heighten pressure on individual young women’s productivity and reproductivity at the same time, the book examines how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work, embody a work ethic, and make their reproductive life a productive domain. Integrating studies of labor, the body, gender, and kinship, this book shows how the ethics and strictly defined discipline of hard work and overtime work are transposed from the office cubicle to the gym and home. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence, embodiment, and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony of the work ethic, and how they have exerted a profound impact on women’s bodies, selves, and lives.

Author : Pun Ngai
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822386759

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Made in China by Pun Ngai Pdf

As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.

Author : Alexander F. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107435292

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The Peasant in Postsocialist China by Alexander F. Day Pdf

The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores the role of the peasantry throughout Chinese history and its importance within the development of post-socialist-era politics. Examining the various ways in which the peasant is historicized, Day shows how different perceptions of the rural lie at the heart of the divergence of contemporary political stances and of new forms of social and political activism in China. Indispensable reading for all those wishing to understand Chinese history and politics, The Peasant in Postsocialist China is a new point of departure in the debate as to the nature of tomorrow's China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : NYPL:33433078234766

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Industrial Relations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shuyu Kong,Julia F. Andrews,Shengtian Zheng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040029534

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Art and Modernism in Socialist China by Shuyu Kong,Julia F. Andrews,Shengtian Zheng Pdf

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the frame of interpretation from socialist realism to socialist modernity, this study reveals the plurality of the historical process of developing modernity in China, the autonomy of artistic agency, and the complexity of an art world conditioned, yet not completely confined, by its surrounding political and ideological apparatus. The unexpected global exchanges examined by many of the authors in this study and the divergent approaches, topics, and genres they present add new sources and insights to this research field, revealing an art history that is heterogeneous, pluralistic, and multi-layered. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art and politics, and Chinese studies.

Author : Joseph Y.S. CHENG
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789629371975

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China by Joseph Y.S. CHENG Pdf

This volume presents a timely assessment of the Hu Wen Administration at the juncture of preparing a change of China s leadership in 2012 13. The assessment is important because the administration s apparent success tends to create a path-dependent orientation on the part of its successor. Bringing together a collection of nineteen major essays, this book offers a fresh perspective of evaluating the performance and achievements of China in the Hu Wen era in terms of economic development, the establishment of a rudimentary social security system and her rising international status. The new opportunities and challenges facing China, and how will the likely successors Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang handle those opportunities and challenges, as well as new policy programmes will also be discussed in greater detail. Each essay is written by experts and scholars from different academic disciplines and backgrounds to provide readers with a unique overview of their respective areas of expertise.