Work and family in urban China : women's changing experience since Mao /: women's changing experience since Mao. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jiping Zuo.
• Authors: Zuo, Jiping
• 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-­Being 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-­Obligation 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.40951; Political science; Married women -- Family relationships -- China; Married women -- Employment -- China; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Married women -- Employment; Married women -- Family relationships; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Political economy; Sociology; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: work & labour; Central government policies; Political economy; Political sociology; Sociology; Industrial sociology; Social policy; Politics & government; China; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137554659; 1137554657
• Related ISBNs: 9781137554642; 1137554649
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2016).
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