{"product_id":"made-in-china-women-factory-workers-in-a-global-workplace-paperback","title":"Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePun Ngai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the \u003ci\u003edagongmei\u003c\/i\u003e, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. \u003ci\u003eMade in China\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China's Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers' perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains--such as backaches and headaches--that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePun Ngai is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRemaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City \u003c\/i\u003eand the founder and chair of the Chinese Working Women Network, a grassroots organization of migrant women factory workers in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more information regarding the Chinese Working Women Network, please click here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.26 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42103427399815,"sku":"9781932643008","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0c95ab130b92c630c412e344c56672b0.webp?v=1732413748","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/made-in-china-women-factory-workers-in-a-global-workplace-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}