Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace

by Pun Ngai

Book Overview

As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932643001
• ISBN13: 9781932643008
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"