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UNINA9910797871303321 |
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Swider Sarah Christine |
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Building China : informal work and the new precariat / / Sarah Swider ; cover design, Richanna Patrick |
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Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2015 |
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1-5017-0171-1 |
1-5017-0172-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Construction industry - China |
Construction workers - China |
Informal sector (Economics) - China |
Migrant labor - China |
Labor movement - China |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Building China and the Making of a New Working Class -- 2. The Hukou System, Migration, and the Construction Industry -- 3. Mediated Employment -- 4. Embedded Employment -- 5. Individual Employment -- 6. Protest and Organizing among Informal Workers under Restrictive Regimes -- 7. Informal Precarious Workers, Protests, and Precarious Authoritarianism -- Appendix A. Methods, Sampling, and Access -- Appendix B. List of Construction Sites -- Appendix C. List of Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living in an enclave, working on construction jobsites, and interviews with eighty-three migrants, managers, and labor contractors. This ethnography focuses on the lives, work, family, |
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and social relations of construction workers. It adds to our understanding of China's new working class, the deepening rural-urban divide, and the growing number of undocumented migrants working outside the protection of labor laws and regulation. Swider shows how these migrants-members of the global "precariat," an emergent social force based on vulnerability, insecurity, and uncertainty-are changing China's class structure and what this means for the prospects for an independent labor movement.The workers who build and serve Chinese cities, along with those who produce goods for the world to consume, are mostly migrant workers. They, or their parents, grew up in the countryside; they are farmers who left the fields and migrated to the cities to find work. Informal workers-who represent a large segment of the emerging workforce-do not fit the traditional model of industrial wage workers. Although they have not been incorporated into the new legal framework that helps define and legitimize China's decentralized legal authoritarian regime, they have emerged as a central component of China's economic success and an important source of labor resistance. |
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UNINA9910404086803321 |
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Autore |
Avato Pinarosa |
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Natural Products and Drug Discovery |
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Natural products hold a prominent position in the current discovery and development of drugs and have diverse indications for both human and animal health. Plants, in particular, play a leading role as a source |
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of specialized metabolites with medical effects. Other organisms, such as marine and terrestrial animals and microorganisms, produce very important drug candidate molecules. Specialized metabolites from these varied natural sources can be used directly as bioactive compounds or drug precursors. In addition, due to their broad chemical diversity, they can act as drug prototypes and/or be used as pharmacological tools for different targets. Some examples of natural metabolites that have been developed into useful medical drug are cardiotonic digoxin from Digitalis sp., antimalarial artemisinin from Artemisia annua, anti-cancer taxol from Taxus sp., or podophyllotoxin from Podophyllum peltatum, which served as a synthetic model for the anti-cancer etoposide. The study of natural products is still attracting great scientific attention and their current importance, as a valuable lead for drug discovery, is undebatable. I cordially invite authors to contribute original articles, as well as survey articles, that give the readers of Molecules **MOLECULES NEEDS TO BE ITALICIZED** updated and new perspectives on natural products in drug discovery, including but not limited to natural sources, identification and separation of bioactive phytochemicals, standardization, new biological targets, pre-clinical and clinical trials, pharmacological effects/side effects, and bioassays. |
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