Building China (Record no. 6334)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780801456930
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 331SWI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Swider, Sarah.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Building China
Remainder of title informal work and the new precariat
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Ithaca
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. ILR Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi,187p. ; 24 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, and labor contractors. This ethnography focuses on the lives, work, family, and social relations of construction workers. It adds to our understanding of China's new working class, the deepening rural-urban divide, and the growing number of undocumented migrants working outside the protection of labor laws and regulation. Swider shows how these migrants?members of the global "precariat," an emergent social force based on vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty?are changing China's class structure and what this means for the prospects for an independent labor movement.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Construction workers--China.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma International Relations 01/17/2025   331SWI UR005646 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book