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Title:

CHINA'S NEW UNDERCLASS
PAID DOMESTIC LABOUR

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Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1136663126

ISBN 13:

9781136663123

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

3 July, 2013

Series:

Routledge Contemporary China Series

Pages:

208

Synopsis:

This book examines the implications of China's economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give rise to paid domestic work in a socialist economy, and goes on to look at the need for social protection of domestic workers within cities in contemporary China.Using a socialist feminist approach, the book investigates how China's economic restructuring has deliberately crafted a domestic service sector from the top-down. Through the analysis of the situation of paid domestic labour, it demonstrates how the changes in socialist ideology under a market economy have justified the state's support for paid domestic labour; the large role of the state in these ideological changes; and how domestic labour is related to economic changes and the market economy itself. The book argues that state's economic reforms have changed gender and class relations in Chinese society.Based on interviews with domestic workers, their employers, their social advocates, and government officials, this book examines the economic and social security of domestic workers and provides information about their precarious working conditions that could be improved through public policy. It also explores women's agency and activism, and the current role of NGOs and trade unions in labour protection.

Illustrations:

7 Tables, black and white

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Non-returnable

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