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Work and Family in Urban China
Jiping Zuo
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Description for Work and Family in Urban China
hardcover. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 215 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JHBL; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women’s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of ... Read more
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women’s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Series
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137554642
SKU
V9781137554642
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Ref
99-15
About Jiping Zuo
Jiping Zuo is Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University, USA. Her research interests are in social construction of family roles, marital inequality, and state-family relations in contemporary China. Her recent publications can be found in Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Rural Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Science & Society.
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