Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

Guerrilla workfare: Migrant renovators, state power, and informal work in urban China

Fecha

2005

Autores

L. Guang

Resumen

The article explores Chinese rural migrants' perspective on work and their relations with each other and with the Chinese state, by drawing upon the ethnographical study of a group of rural home renovators in Beijing in the 1990s. The rural renovators were dubbed "guerrilla" workers because of their physical mobility, irregular employment, and unregistered status. After considering the novelty of guerrilla workfare in China, the article demonstrates the bifurcation of migrants' social networks along the lines of work and everyday association, locates the politics of worker-state interaction at the place of their everyday living, and explores their understanding of work that is remarkably devoid of nostalgia for state socialism. [References: 57]

Journal title

Politics & Society

Volumen

33

Page numbers

481-506

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Otro y Construction trades helpers and labourers

Tipos de contenido

Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

China

Esferas de la actividad

Socioligie

Idiomas

Inglés