"This illuminating book, an ethnographic study of a Korean garment factory in North China, is an excellent example of a locally embedded globalization case, in which the author studies global production, the Chinese state and cultural negotiations of nationhood, ethnicity, culture and identity of the workers at the workplace."
Pun Ngai
author of Made in China: Factory Women ... Read moreWorkers in a Global Workplace
"In recent years there has been steady growth in the literature on global supply chains and labour in China. In Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory, Jaesok Kim adds to this scholarship with an ethnography that is sensitive to managerial strategy, ethnicity, and local embeddedness . . . There is much to recommend Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory. First, it takes the issue of ethnicity seriously . . . Kim's study is an important first foray into this field, and provides insights on the relationship between ethnicity and identity in globalizing China."
Eli Friedman
Pacific Affairs
"A pleasing study of how cultural assumptions influence the organization of work in a Chinese factory. The research is solid, insightful and memorable."
William Jankowiak, University of Nevada
Las Vegas
"Kim's contribution lies not only in his detailed and thorough description of the ways in which the factory management controls labor, but also in his sophisticated treatment of the concept of factory regime as an evolving construct . . . In chronicling the evolution of the factory's regime of labor management, Kim makes an important contribution to our understanding of the broader processes of localization and globalization of capitalist practices . . . It should be of interest not only to students and scholars of China, but also to those of labor, industry, and global capitalism."
Jianhua Zhao
Journal of Anthropological Research
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