Working in China : Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Mapping the Terrain of Labor Ethnography Ching Kwan Lee Part I: Remaking Class and Community 2. The Unmaking the Chinese Working Class in the Northeastern Rustbelt Ching Kwan Lee 3. "Social Positions": Neighbourhood Transition After the Danwei Sian Victoria Liu 4. Rural "Guerrilla Workfare" Workers and Home Renovation in Urban China Lei Guang 5. A Tale of Two Sales Floors: Changing Service Work Regimes in China Amy Hanser Part II: Reworking Gender 6.Virtual Personalism in Beijing: Learning Deference and Femininity at a Global Luxury HotelEileen Otis 7. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: An Ethnography ofChina's KaraokeSex Industry Tiantian Zheng 8. Rurality and Labor Process Autonomy: The Waged Labor of Domestic Service Hairong Yan Part III: New Professions and Knowledge Workers 9.The Practice ofLaw as an Obstacle to Justice: Chinese Lawyers at Work Ethan Michelson 10. Outsourcing as a Way of Life? Knowledge Transfer in the Yangtze Delta Andrew Ross 11. Nationalism, Theft and Management Strategies in the Information Industry of Mainland ChinaDimitri Kessler 12. HoningtheDesiredAttitudes: Ideological Work On Insurance Sales Agents Cheris Shun-Ching Chan