Factory Work Women And The Family In Taiwan
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Author | : Lydia Kung |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780231100113 |
An important study of Taiwan's first generation of working women, documenting their and their families' views of their employment and the effects that wage earning has on the status and lives of these women.
Author | : Lydia Kung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Families |
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Author | : Ping-Chun Hsiung |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 143990765X |
A detailed portrait and sophisticated analysis of married women working Taiwan's export factories.
Author | : Margery Wolf |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1972-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804780780 |
Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. The source of a woman's power, her home in a social structure dominated by men, is what the author calls the uterine family, a de facto social unity consisting of a mother and her children. The first four chapters are devoted to general background material: a brief historical sketch of Taiwan and a description fo the settings in which the author's observations were made; the history of a particular family; the relation of Chinese women to the Chinese kinship system; and the interrelationships among women in the community. The remaining ten chapters take up in detail the successive stages of the Taiwanese woman's life cycle: infancy, childhood, engagement, marriage, motherhood, and old age. Throught the book the author presents detailed information on such topics as marriage negotiations, childbirth, child training practices, and the organization of women's groups.
Author | : Diane L. Wolf |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1992-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520915046 |
Taking the reader inside the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they work, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints, and changes in their lives. She debunks conventional wisdom about the patriarchal family, while at the same time clearly identifying the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change, and industrialization in the Third World.
Author | : Rita S. Gallin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Hsin Hsing (Taiwan) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Committee for Asian Women |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hill Gates |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501719912 |
Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan’s history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth-century wars, and the East Asian economic expansion interacted in forming Taiwanese urban life. She introduces nine individuals from Taiwan’s three major ethnic groups to tell the stories of their lives in their own words. The narrators include a fortuneteller, a woman laborer, and a retired air force mechanic. A former spirit medium and a janitor are among the others who speak.
Author | : Diane L. Wolf |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520086570 |
Looking at the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World and identifies the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java.
Author | : Leslie T. Chang |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0385520182 |
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation. A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.