Research Catalog

Title

China's new underclass : paid domestic labour / Xinying Hu.

Author

Hu, Xinying.

Publication

London : New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Description

xv, 190 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Despite economic development in China in the last 30 years producing a domestic service industry, domestic workers are in a very precarious situation in terms of working and living conditions. This book looks at China's economic transition from a socialist, centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy.

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary China series ; v. 73

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary China series 73.

Subject

• Women household employees > China
• Women household employees > China > Economic conditions
• Women household employees
• Women household employees > Economic conditions
• Unterschicht
• China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Domestic employment regimes in China -- Globalization, economic reforms and paid domestic employment in China -- Childcare crisis after economic reforms -- Domestic labour as precarious work in China -- From individual resistance to unionized negotiation -- Establishing domestic workers' rights -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780415617659 (hbk.)
• 0415617650 (hbk.)
• 9780203807606 (ebk.)
• 020380760X (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2011275195

OCLC

• 666242834
• SCSB-11379406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library