Manufacturing Towns in China The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers
This book offers an engaging and unique view of the governance of Chinese rural migrants in non-factory areas of manufacturing towns. By asking how authorities govern migrants as an ongoing source of cheap labor, this book demonstrates and interprets auth
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Yue Gong
Manufacturing Towns in China
The cover photo portrays factory street recruitment in 2018. Factories have been forced to recruit rural migrant workers more actively than ever before, due to the acute labor shortage. Every day in the months after China’s Spring Festival, factory recruiters line up their booths on village retail streets and compete to hire as many rural migrants as possible
Yue Gong
Manufacturing Towns in China The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers
Yue Gong Shenzhen Graduate School Peking University Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
ISBN 978-981-13-3371-2 ISBN 978-981-13-3372-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3372-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962247 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: Yue Gong This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
To my parents Gong Liqiang Chen Qiongyao
Acknowledgements
It took the best part of a decade to turn my initial idea for doctoral research on migrants and Chinese cities into this book. Over that time frame, many people have supported me. Chinese rural migrants are certainly the first group to whom I feel indebted. Their kindness to me in my field studies and the struggle, resistance, and resilience that punctuates their day-to-day lives inspired my research and encouraged me to complete both my dissertation and this book. I cannot express my appreciation to them through this English-language book but I do hope that this record and analysis of their lives in manufacturing towns will be memorable and perhaps beneficial in
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