Made in China : Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace

As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: th 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 dagongm 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. Highlighting acts of resistance in the workplace, she suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.

作者簡介：

Pun Ngai is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is coeditor of Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City and the founder and chair of The Chinese Working Women Network, a grassroots organization of migrant women factory workers in China.

• 作者： Ngai Pun
• 出版社： 香港大學出版社 出版日期：2005-05-01 ISBN/ISSN：1932643001
• 語言：英文 裝訂方式：平裝 頁數：240頁
• 類別： 中文書> 社會科學