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Building China - Informal Work and the New Precariat (Hardcover)
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Building China - Informal Work and the New Precariat (Hardcover)
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Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass
migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction
workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah
Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai
between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on
construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants,
managers, and labor contractors. This ethnography focuses on the
lives, work, family, and social relations of construction workers.
It adds to our understanding of China's new working class, the
deepening rural-urban divide, and the growing number of
undocumented migrants working outside the protection of labor laws
and regulation. Swider shows how these migrants—members of the
global "precariat," an emergent social force based on
vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty—are changing China's
class structure and what this means for the prospects for an
independent labor movement.The workers who build and serve Chinese
cities, along with those who produce goods for the world to
consume, are mostly migrant workers. They, or their parents, grew
up in the countryside; they are farmers who left the fields and
migrated to the cities to find work. Informal workers—who
represent a large segment of the emerging workforce—do not fit
the traditional model of industrial wage workers. Although they
have not been incorporated into the new legal framework that helps
define and legitimize China's decentralized legal authoritarian
regime, they have emerged as a central component of China's
economic success and an important source of labor resistance.
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