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Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory

Author : Jaesok Kim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786127
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory written by Jaesok Kim and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim examines how governments, to attract MNCs, relinquish parts of their legal rights over these entities, while MNCs also give up portions of their rights as proxies of global capitalism by complying with local government guidelines to ensure infrastructure and cheap labor. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC struggled with the pressure to be increasingly profitable while negotiating the clash of Korean and Chinese cultures, traditions, and classes on the factory floor of a garment corporation. Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory pays particular attention to common features of post-socialist countries. By analyzing the contentious collaboration between foreign management, factory workers, government officials, and gangs, this study contributes not only to the research on the politics of resistance but also to how global and local forces interact in concrete and surprising ways.

Korean Workers

Author : Hagen Koo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731777
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Korean Workers written by Hagen Koo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation.

Factory Girls

Author : Leslie T. Chang
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385520182
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Factory Girls written by Leslie T. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.

The Rise of China and the Rebound in Korea's Manufacturing Employment(KIEP Working Paper 18-07)

Author : Kyong Hyun Koo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788932242811
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of China and the Rebound in Korea's Manufacturing Employment(KIEP Working Paper 18-07) written by Kyong Hyun Koo and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Liberated Chinese Workers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Liberated Chinese Workers written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brochure de propagande en anglais publiée trois ans après l'établissement de la République populaire de Chine en 1949 et dont le but est de montrer l'évolution positive de la situation des travailleurs chinois, hommes et femmes.

The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace

Author : Mark W. Frazier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432230
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace written by Mark W. Frazier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central institution in Chinese politics emerged over the course of various crises that swept through China's industrial sector prior to and after revolution in 1949. Frazier explores critical phases in the expansion of the Chinese state during the middle third of the twentieth century to reveal how different labour institutions reflected state power. While the 'iron rice bowl' is usually seen as an outgrowth of Communist labour policy, Frazier's account shows that is has longer historical roots. As a product of the Chinese state, the iron rice bowl's dismantling in the 1990s has raised sensitive issues about the way in which the contemporary Chinese state exerts control over urban industrial society. This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.

The Chinese Labor Movement

Author : Nym Wales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Labor Movement written by Nym Wales and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Factories and Two Kind [sic] of Free-market (read Bonded) Workforces

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Factories and Two Kind [sic] of Free-market (read Bonded) Workforces written by Anita Chan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Facing Labor Issues in China

Author : Chuan-hua Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Facing Labor Issues in China written by Chuan-hua Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Labor Market Effects of the China Syndrome

Author : Jaerim Choi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Labor Market Effects of the China Syndrome written by Jaerim Choi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Asia Works

Author : Joe Studwell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193471
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book How Asia Works written by Joe Studwell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year” An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished. Studwell’s in-depth analysis focuses on three main areas: land policy, manufacturing, and finance. Land reform has been essential to the success of Asian economies, giving a kick-start to development by utilizing a large workforce and providing capital for growth. With manufacturing, industrial development alone is not sufficient, Studwell argues. Instead, countries need “export discipline,” a government that forces companies to compete on the global scale. And in finance, effective regulation is essential for fostering, and sustaining growth. To explore all of these subjects, Studwell journeys far and wide, drawing on fascinating examples from a Philippine sugar baron’s stifling of reform to the explosive growth at a Korean steel mill. “Provocative . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.” —The Economist

China Enters the Machine Age

Author : Kuo-heng Shih
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Enters the Machine Age written by Kuo-heng Shih and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borderland Dreams

Author : June Hee Kwon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027460
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Borderland Dreams written by June Hee Kwon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to “leave to live better” at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and post–Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.

Chu Hsueh-fan and the Chinese Labor Movement, 1926-1948

Author : Richard David Comerford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Chu Hsueh-fan and the Chinese Labor Movement, 1926-1948 written by Richard David Comerford and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media

Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135042489
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media written by Richard Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between. Specifically, this book features: -wide-ranging international case studies spanning the major global hubs of media labor; -interdisciplinary approaches for thinking about and analyzing class and labor in information communication technology (ICT), consumer electronics (CE), and media/cultural production; -an overview of global political economic conditions affecting media workers; -reports on chemical environments and their effect on the health of media workers and consumers; -activist scholarship on media and labor, and inspiring stories of resistance and solidarity.

Dying for an iPhone

Author : Jenny Chan
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642592048
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Dying for an iPhone written by Jenny Chan and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn’s drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China’s goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers. Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers.’

China's Workers Under Assault

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765632838
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book China's Workers Under Assault written by Anita Chan and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers, migrant workers from the countryside, and workers who are sent to work outside of China. The analytical framework for these case studies lays out why labor rights violations have been occurring in China and highlights the context in which these violations operate and the extent to which these selected cases are not isolated incidents. Moreover, the dilemma of Chinese workers is put into international perspective: the context of the international labor market, the setting of competitive minimum wages in Asia, and the concern for Chinese workers' rights taken up by the International Labor Organization (ILO). This book debunks the conventional wisdom that Chinese workers are thriving because the Chinese economy is booming. Indeed the wage structures of these enterprises of different ownership types contribute to widening income disparities in China. The book uncovers what exactly the overseas Chinese entrepreneurship (Taiwan and Hong Kong), means at the factory level. And it calls for a new approach to scrutinizing the phenomena of the so-called Chinese economic miracle and its repercussions on other economies and labor markets.