Young and Restless in China - Hou, Xiaoshuo
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At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) - migrant workers, mostly male and born in the 1990s, who are disappointed by exploitative factories and thus choose short-term employment and day labor - in urban migrant communities. Based on ethnographic studies in two of those communities in China, this book analyzes the gendered and gendering aspects of labor, reveals the different processes of…mehr

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At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) - migrant workers, mostly male and born in the 1990s, who are disappointed by exploitative factories and thus choose short-term employment and day labor - in urban migrant communities. Based on ethnographic studies in two of those communities in China, this book analyzes the gendered and gendering aspects of labor, reveals the different processes of precarization among workers, and discusses the role of the diverse intermediaries who both sustain workers' livelihoods and reproduce their precarity.
Autorenporträt
Xiaoshuo Hou is Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Skidmore College where she held the inaugural Frances Young Tang '61 Chair in Chinese Studies (2016-2021). She is the author of Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism (2013) and one of the co-editors of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2020) and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2016).