LEADER 04446nam 2200733 450 001 9910827184003321 005 20230807193843.0 010 $a1-5017-0171-1 010 $a1-5017-0172-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501701726 035 $a(CKB)3710000000497181 035 $a(EBL)4189268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001569899 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16220695 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001569899 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12266620 035 $a(PQKB)11359885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189268 035 $a(OCoLC)1080549691 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58218 035 $a(DE-B1597)496395 035 $a(OCoLC)1041994167 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501701726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4189268 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11129105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL848108 035 $a(OCoLC)927444496 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000497181 100 $a20151228h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding China $einformal work and the new precariat /$fSarah Swider ; cover design, Richanna Patrick 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-5693-2 311 $a0-8014-5415-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Building China and the Making of a New Working Class -- $t2. The Hukou System, Migration, and the Construction Industry -- $t3. Mediated Employment -- $t4. Embedded Employment -- $t5. Individual Employment -- $t6. Protest and Organizing among Informal Workers under Restrictive Regimes -- $t7. Informal Precarious Workers, Protests, and Precarious Authoritarianism -- $tAppendix A. Methods, Sampling, and Access -- $tAppendix B. List of Construction Sites -- $tAppendix C. List of Interviews -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aRoughly 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, 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. 606 $aConstruction industry$zChina 606 $aConstruction workers$zChina 606 $aInformal sector (Economics)$zChina 606 $aMigrant labor$zChina 606 $aLabor movement$zChina 615 0$aConstruction industry 615 0$aConstruction workers 615 0$aInformal sector (Economics) 615 0$aMigrant labor 615 0$aLabor movement 676 $a331 700 $aSwider$b Sarah Christine$01685018 702 $aPatrick$b Richanna 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827184003321 996 $aBuilding China$94056829 997 $aUNINA