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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Politics and development of contemporary China series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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