Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932643184 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Interesting read AZM This was a good memoir to read. I found it slow at times and choppy because the author moves back and forth from past to present constantly and then the book suddenly ends. There is no sharing of her actual transition from her Amish life into her "English" life, nor any details of how she actually met her husband. The end was far too sudden. Further, the information contain
Through Pun’s ethnographic eye, these women come alive as active subjects who confront the pain and trauma of the social violence inflicted on them in a complex poetics of transgression.”—Lisa Rofel, author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism. Her ethnography is a moving and angry description of the lives of young migrant women, who are the guts of this process. “Made in China is a passionate, engaged ethnography. Pun Ngai provides us with a searing critique of how global capital, with the collusion of the Chinese state, is turning China into the sweatshop of the world
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. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Made in China is a compelling look