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After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages. Working in China introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories. The mosaic of human faces, organizational dynamics and workers' voices presented in the book reflect the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese workplace today. Based on extraordinary and thorough field research, this book will have a wide readership at undergraduate level and beyond, appealing to students and scholars from a myriad of disciplines including Chinese studies, labour studies, sociology and political economy.
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Keywords
- Agents
- bars
- Chinese
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- engineer
- ethnic studies
- Industrial arbitration & negotiation
- Industrial relations
- Industrial relations, health & safety
- Industry & industrial studies
- Insurance
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- karaoke
- Labor
- Political Economy
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Regional studies
- Sales
- sex
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
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- Workers
- Working class
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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966983Editions
