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Book SynopsisIn 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. Her ethnography focuses on the work, family, and social lives of construction workers in China.
Trade ReviewThe contributions of Building China are vast. Swider's call for a new language for under- standing informal labor is important and refreshing: it points toward new directions of inquiry in a field of labor studies that has fallen out of academic vogue in a political moment when it is most needed.
-- Julia Chuang, Boston College * Industrial Labor Relations Review *
Table of Contents1. Building China and the Making of a New Working Class2. The Hukou System, Migration, and the Construction Industry3. Mediated Employment: A City of Walls4. Embedded Employment: A City of Villages5. Individual Employment: A City of Violence6. Protest and Organizing among Informal Workers under Restrictive Regimes7. Informal Precarious Workers, Protests, and Precarious AuthoritarianismAppendix A. Methods, Sampling, and Access
Appendix B. List of Construction Sites
Appendix C. List of InterviewsNotes
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Index
