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- Made In China:
Women Factory
Workers In A
Global
Workplace: (30 June
2005)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
painsâ€"such
as backaches
and
headachesâ€"th
at 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
under way in
China and that
these young
migrant
workers are
its agents.
Source: (30 June 2005) - Women's Labor
History,
1790-1945: Reviews in
American
History, Vol.
17, No. 4.
(1989), pp.
501-518.
Source: Reviews in American History, Vol. 17, No. 4. (1989), pp. 501-518. - Beyond the
Family
Economy: Black
and White
Working-Class
Women during
the Great
Depression: Feminist
Studies, Vol.
13, No. 3.
(1987), pp.
629-655.
Source: Feminist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3. (1987), pp. 629-655. - Accessibility
of workers in
a compact
city: The case
of Hong Kong: Habitat Int.,
Vol. 28, No.
1. (2004), pp.
89-102.This
article
investigates
the
relationship
between the
accessibility
of workers and
the compact
city structure
in Hong Kong.
We are
particularly
concerned with
the influences
of land-use
policy and
public
transport
systems
development on
the
accessibility
of workers. We
construct a
model which
incorporates
factors such
as transfers
in work trips,
employment
status,
income,
gender,
marital status
and living in
accessible
areas to
account for
the
accessibility
of workers.
Our findings
show that
whether a
worker lives
in an
accessible
area or not
does not
affect his or
her
accessibility,
rather
transfers in
work trips
have the
greatest
impact,
indicating
that
variability in
accessibility
to jobs is
different in a
compact city
structure with
a hierarchical
transport
network from
that in cities
in Europe and
the US.
Although
income is not
a significant
factor
affecting the
accessibility
of workers,
workers in
Hong Kong have
to bear high
travel costs
on transfers.
Also
noteworthy is
the finding
that married
workers spend
longer times
on work trips
than the
workers who
are single. It
might be
attributed to
the fact that
a high
proportion of
households
employ foreign
domestic
helpers to
take care of
their
housework so
that they
could spend
more time on
work trips. ©
2003 Elsevier
Science Ltd.
All rights
reserved.
Source: Habitat Int., Vol. 28, No. 1. (2004), pp. 89-102. - The impact of
public
transport on
US
metropolitan
wage
inequality: Urban Stud.,
Vol. 39, No.
3. (2002), pp.
423-436.This
article
presents a
wage
inequality
analysis for
158 large US
metropolitan
statistical
areas (MSAs).
The analysis
is concerned
with whether
public
transport has
a detectable
influence on
1990 levels of
wage equality.
Because public
transport
systems are
generally
designed to
link
residences
with
employment
locations,
higher levels
of service
provision, all
other factors
being equal,
should be
associated
with higher
employment
rates and more
uniform
distributions
of earnings.
Few analyses,
however, have
attempted to
evaluate
public
policies that
affect wage
distributions.
The results of
this research
provide a
macroscopic
view of the
effectiveness
of urban
transport
investments
with respect
to urban wage
inequality.
Source: Urban Stud., Vol. 39, No. 3. (2002), pp. 423-436.
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