POLI 338 Chapter Notes -Wage Labour, Abusive Power And Control, Nepotism
20 Jan 2013
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Lee engendering the worlds of labor: women workers, labor. Markets, and production politics in the south china economic. Miracle comparative ethnographic study of two gendered regimes of production in two factories in south china same products/processes, yet different patterns of shop-floor politics. "localistic despotism:" management control over migrant workforce through coercive disciplinary regime exploits localistic networks constructs women as docile "maiden workers" Married women"s participation s contingent on conditions of their families in response, management adopts diverse modes of incorporating labour while women deploy different modes of resistance. Two claims: feminist analyses of gender need to develop area-specific theories. Marxist labour-process theories of production politics must recognize that gender is a dimension of managerial control. Workers depend on these ties for survival, while management exploits these ties to control labour another example: familial and kinship ties (familialism) "maiden workers" and "matron workers" actors use perceived differences between the sexes to organize and interpret social life.
