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Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satelite Factory System in Taiwan
Ping-Chun Hsiung
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paperback. In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home "Living Rooms as Factories". The author studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories. Num Pages: 200 pages, 14 illustrations, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; JFSJ; JHM; KCF; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewellery boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home "Living Rooms as Factories." Hsiung studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories, and how their work and family lives have contributed to Taiwan's 9.1 percent GNP growth over the last three ... Read more
In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories of thirty employees or less make items for export, like the wooden jewellery boxes that Ping-Chun Hsiung made when she worked in six such factories. These factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home "Living Rooms as Factories." Hsiung studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories, and how their work and family lives have contributed to Taiwan's 9.1 percent GNP growth over the last three ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566393904
SKU
V9781566393904
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