Building China: informal work and the new precariat

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Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationIthaca
PublisherILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
ISBN (Print)9780801454158, 0801454158, 9780801456930, 0801456932
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Bibliographical note

M1 - xxi, 187 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.

Building China and the making of a new working class -- The Hukou system, migration and the construction industry -- Mediated employment : a city of walls -- Embedded employment : a city of 232 villages -- Individual employment : a city of violence -- Protest and organizing among informal workers under restrictive regimes -- Informal precarious workers, protests and precarious authoritarianism.

    Research areas

  • Construction workers / China., Construction industry / China., Informal sector (Economics) / China., Migrant labor / China., Labor movement / China., Construction industry. / fast / (OCoLC)fst00875964, Construction workers. / fast / (OCoLC)fst00876155, Informal sector (Economics) / fast / (OCoLC)fst00972518, Labor movement. / fast / (OCoLC)fst00990079, Migrant labor. / fast / (OCoLC)fst01020711, China. / fast / (OCoLC)fst01206073

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