Work and family in urban China : women's changing experience since Mao /

This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China's recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women's experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China's free-market approach and demonstrates its negative...

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Main Author: Zuo, Jiping (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Politics and development of contemporary China series.
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520 8 |a This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China's recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women's experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China's free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women's work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of their strategies to resist market brutality and their struggles to balance work and family demands. The book also explores urban women's non-market definitions of marital equality, and highlights theoretical and policy implications concerning market efficiency, marital equality, and the state's role in protecting public good. 
505 0 |a Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: Introduction; A Puzzle: Women's Growing Domestic-Role Orientation in Urban China; What Has Happened and What to Study?; Labor Denigration, Alienation, and Resistance in Market Societies; Home as a Site of Resistance; Work-Family Conflict and the Persistence of Women's Domestic Role in Market Societies; Organization of the Book; References; Part I: State-Socialist Era (1949-The 1980s); Chapter 2: Equalizing Gender and Class 
505 8 |a Transforming Patriarchal Families for Socialist Projects Implementing New State-Oriented Marriage Laws; Sending Women into the Labor Force in the Nationalized Economy; "The Dual Policy of Diligence and Frugality" (liang qin fang zhen)-Extending State Policy to the Home Front; Expanding the State's Role in Urban Family Well-ƯBeing and Control; Providing a Safety Net and Labor Insurance; Ensuring Family Economic Well-Being; Health Insurance; Housing Benefits; Protection and Benefits for Women Workers; Education; The Culture of Obligation and the Example set by the CPC; References 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Socialist Workers, National Heroines"We Are the Masters of the Country": A Sense of Collective Ownership and Belonging; "We Also Have Two Hands and Should Not Stay Home to Eat Unearned Food": An Equal-ƯObligation Ideology; The CPC Exemplification and Obligation Equality; References; Chapter 4: Women's Triple Burden; References; Part II: Market-Reform Era (The 1990s-Present); Chapter 5: Labor Denigration and Work-Family Conflict; State-Family Disaggregation; Implementing Individual-Oriented New Marriage Laws 
505 8 |a From Family Welfare Provider to Market Facilitator: The Changing Role of the StateLabor Denigration; Dispensable Labor; Market-Based Income Distribution; Women's Loss of Broader Social Roles; Work-Family Conflict; Working Hours; Paid Leave and Holiday Pay; References; Chapter 6: Women's Domestic-Role Orientation; Labor Denigration and Women's Domestic-Role Orientation; Perceived Redistributive Injustice of the Workplace and the Rewards of Domestic Work; Home as a Refuge from the Vicious Competition of the Workplace 
505 8 |a The Impact of Adversarial Family Relations on Women's Domestic-Role OrientationReferences; Chapter 7: Diverse Roles, A Common Dilemma; Heightened Work-Family Conflict in the Market Transition Era; Stay-at-Home Moms' Ambivalent Feelings; Family-Oriented Working Women's Dilemma; Career-Oriented Women: A Resourceful Group; References; Chapter 8: A Different Marital Equality; "Domestic Work Is an Unpaid Contribution to the Family"; Intrinsic Benefits of Domestic Work for Women; Housework as an Expression of Care and Love; "Raising a Filial Child"-Some Women's Expectations 
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