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Made in china

Paperback • 2006

Made in china

By Pun Ngai

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As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the <i>dagongmei</i>, 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 twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. Th...Show more

Sociology: work and labour
International economics

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Made in china

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