208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Domestic Employment Regimes in China 3. Globalization, Economic Reforms, and Paid Domestic Employment in China 4. Childcare Crisis after Economic Reforms 5. Domestic Labour as Precarious Work in China 6. From Individual Resistance to Unionized Negotiation 7. Establishing Domestic Workers’ Rights
Biography
Xinying Hu is a Chinese scholar who received her PhD from the Department of Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
"Students of international development would particularly benefit from reading this book, which accomplishes its admirable and practical goal of outlining the many challenges and possible remedies which the state and various actors in civil society should consider in addressing migrant domestic workers as members of China’s underclass." - Mei-Ling Ellerman, The Australian National University; The China Journal, No. 68
