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Chinese labor in a Korean factory : class, ethnicity, and productivity on the shop floor in globalizing China / Jaesok Kim.

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This title draws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC st...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kim, Jaesok (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Corporations, South Korean > China > Qingdao > Sociological aspects.
International business enterprises > China > Qingdao > Sociological aspects.
Clothing factories > China > Qingdao > Case studies.
Sweatshops > China > Qingdao > Case studies.
Industrial relations > China > Qingdao > Case studies.
Labor and globalization > China > Qingdao > Case studies.
Business anthropology > China > Qingdao > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of spatial divisions and the living environment
  • The politics of nationality, ethnicity, and status : the case of the factory office
  • The making of Chinese industrial workers
  • Korean management in a Chinese workshop : economic globalization and the changing factory regime
  • Pitfalls of globalization : local government and its impact on the factory regime
  • Clash of the global and the local
  • Globalizing capital and the bleak future of Chinese workers.

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