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891218
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Shen, Yang
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Beyond tears and laughter : : gender, migration, and the service sector in China /\ Yang Shen.
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| Publication Statement
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Singapore :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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New perspectives on Chinese politics and society
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9789811358173
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: 9811358176
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9789811358166
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Preface; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introducing Migration, Gender and the Service Sector; Intersectionality of Gender, Class and Hukou; A Critique of Gendered Migration and the Gendered Service Sector; Nongmingong: The Intersection Between Class and Hukou; Stigmatisation of Nongmingong in Contemporary Research; Marketisation of Service Sectors and Workers; The Field and the Methods; The Meteor Restaurant; Work Schedule; Living Conditions of Restaurant Workers; Outline of the Book
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Chapter 2: Gendered Subjectivities in a Patriarchal ChinaUnderstanding Agency; Agency, Coercion and Subjectivity; Agency and Resistance; Different Modes of Agency and the Distinction Between Coping and Resistance; Patriarchy, Filial Piety, Masculinity and Femininity; Conceptualising Patriarchy in China; Gendered Practices of Filial Piety; Masculinity and Filial Piety; Femininity and Filial Piety; Chapter 3: Working in a Gendered, Feminised and Hierarchical Workplace; The Gendered Workplace; The Reverse Hierarchy; The Feminised Workplace; Job Hierarchy and Prestige; Gendered Subjectivity
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Chapter 7: Unpacking the Complexity of Gender, Class and HukouAn Overview of the Findings; The Operation of Gender, Class and Hukou at Work; Paradoxical Empowerment of Women in a Transforming Patriarchal Society; Masculinity and Patriarchy; Agency Represented as Coping and Resistance; Contribution; Implication; Limitation; Appendix A: Doing Ethnographic Research from a Feminist Perspective; Feminist Epistemology; Research Design; Methods of Data Collection; Interviews; Participant Observation; Questionnaire Surveys; Fieldwork: From Pilot Interviewing to Follow-up Study; Pilot Interviewing
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Feminine Morality at WorkNegative Subjectivity of the Male Workers; 'Men Working in the Restaurant Are Hopeless': Conflicts Between Workers; Chapter 4: The Short-Lived Jobs: From Beginning to End; Becoming a Restaurant Worker; Discipline and Punishment; 'They Treat Us Not as Human Beings': Worker-Customer Relationship; Resistance and Coping at Work; Verbal Resistance; Coping in the Forms of Obedient Performance and Procrastination; Mental Escaping as Coping; Quitting the Job; Chapter 5: Negotiating Intimacy: Obedience, Compromise and Resistance; Responses to Filial Piety: Three Cases
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Unmet Brideprice, Anxious BachelorsFilial Piety Meets Romance; Rising Power of Married Women in the Temporal Non-patrilocal Environment; Migrant Father and Subordinated Masculinity; Chapter 6: Crafting a Modern Person via Consumption? Women and Men in Leisure Activities; Collective Ecstasy: Attending the Karaoke Bar; Femininity in Leisure: Shopping and Embroidery; Haggling for 'Low Class Trash'; Calculation and Trade-off as Coping; Embroidery (shizi xiu) as Women's Activity; Masculinity in Leisure: Gambling; Back to the Karaoke Bar: Concluding Remarks
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This book explores the experience of China's migrant laborers in Shanghai from economic, anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also explores the political, economic, and gendered realities of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanizing new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, urbanists, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens. Yang Shen, with a PhD from the London School of Economics, is an assistant professor at School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her work explores individual experiences of Chinese migrant workers within the contemporary globalized economy. Her current research focuses on housing and intimacy, online dating, and migrant housing and informal settlement in China.--
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Gender identity in the workplace-- China.
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Migrant labor-- China-- Shanghai.
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Rural-urban migration-- China.
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Service industries-- China-- Shanghai.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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Gender identity in the workplace.
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Migrant labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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Rural-urban migration.
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Service industries.
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China, Shanghai.
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China.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.5/440951
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HD5856.C6
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