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UNINA9910454567803321 |
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Titolo |
Re-drawing boundaries : work, households, and gender in China / / edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-92382-0 |
1-59734-856-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EntwisleBarbara |
HendersonGail <1949-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Labor - China |
Sex discrimination in employment - China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-331) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Work and Household in Chinese Culture: Historical Perspectives; 2. Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work; 3. What Is Work? Comparative Perspectives from the Social Sciences; 4. The Changing Meanings of Work in China; 5. Local Meanings of Gender and Work in Rural Shaanxi in the 1950's; 6. Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution, 1966 -76; 7. Wage and Job Inequalities in the Working Lives of Men and Women in Tianjin; 8. Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991 |
9. The Perils of Assessing Trends in Gender Inequality in China 10. The Interplay of Gender, Space, and Work in China's Floating Population; 11. Interconnections among Gender, Work, and Migration; 12. Migration, Gender, and Labor Force in Hubei Province, 1985-1990; 13. Gendered Migration and the Migration of Genders in Contemporary China; 14. Reconfiguring Shanghai Households; 15. Household Economies in Transitional Times; 16. Understanding the Social Inequality System and Family and Household Dynamics in China; Conclusion: Re-Drawing Boundaries; Glossary of Chinese Terms; References |
ContributorsIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical |
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research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. |
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