Xinying Hu

China's New Underclass

Paid Domestic Labour

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the implications of Chinäs economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. It analyses the factors giving rise to paid domestic work in a socialist economy, and the need for social protection of domestic women workers within cities in contemporary China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415617659
• ISBN-10: 0415617650
• Artikelnr.: 40185643

Autorenporträt

Xinying Hu is a Chinese scholar who received her PhD from the Department of Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Domestic Employment Regimes in China 3. Globalization,
Economic Reforms, and Paid Domestic Employment in China 4. Childcare Crisis
after Economic Reforms 5. Domestic Labour as Precarious Work in China
6. From Individual Resistance to Unionized Negotiation 7. Establishing
Domestic Workers¿ Rights