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Gender and Class: Women's Working Lives in a Dormitory Labor Regime in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2012

Pun Ngai
Pun Ngai
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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The thirty years since Women on the Line has witnessed great achievement in the literature of gender and work both in the West and Global South. There was a booming literature since the 1970s and 1980s in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women studies, and cultural studies—most of them excellent works that touch upon sophisticated debates on the interplay between gender and work, production and reproduction, dominance, and resistance in an increasingly globalized context.

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Thirty Years on from Women on the Line: Researching Gender and Work
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 81 , Spring 2012 , pp. 178 - 181
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2012

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NOTES

I would like to acknowledge that part of the field studies of this paper was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council on a project, “Making a new working class: A study of collective actions in a dormitory labor regime of South China” (2007–2009).

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