Manufacturing towns in China : the governance of rural migrant workers /: the governance of rural migrant workers. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yue Gong.
• Authors: Gong, Yue Ray
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Governance, Rural Migrants, and Manufacturing Towns; Governance Based on Governmentality; Rural Migrants in Manufacturing Towns; Structure of the Book; References; Part I Rise of Manufacturing Towns; 2 Development of Manufacturing Towns in the 1980s and 1990s; Three Authorities in Manufacturing Towns; Authorities' Skewed Development and Spatial Patterns of Manufacturing Towns; Skewed Development and an Artery-Oriented and Polarized Pattern of Towns Village Collectives' Self-Development and Separated Zones of VillagesReferences; 3 Filtering Rural Migrants as Cheap Labor: Three Authorities' Governance; Three Authorities' Political Rationalities; The Government's Pastoral Power; Village Collectives' Sovereignty; Industrialists' Discipline; Rationale of Collaboration and Conflict among Three Authorities; "Invisible Filters": Conveying Migrants onto the Assembly Line; References; Part II Transformation of Manufacturing Towns; 4 Retail Streets: Recruiting Low-Skilled Migrants in Villages; Introduction of Barn Village in a Manufacturing Town Factory Recruitment: Industrialists' Power Coming to the StreetExamination of Migrant Jobseekers; Examination of Migrant Recruiters; Village Collectives and Security of Street Recruitment; References; 5 Rental Housing: Surveillance of Rural Migrants; Entering a Rental Housing Compound; Emerging Creative Management of Migrants; Development of RHM: Four Surveillance Techniques; RHM as an "Invisible Filter"; References; 6 Central Squares: Guiding Rural Migrants in Planned Public Space; Engaging Suzhi Development with the Government's Pastoral Power Guidance and Absorption of Skilled Migrants in Central SquaresUrban Form and the Power of Central Squares; Guiding and Absorbing Skilled Migrants; Impact of the Recent Hukou Reform and Rural Migrants' Responses; Failure of the Government Guidance in Villages; References; Part III Revolution of Manufacturing Towns; 7 An Eco-High-Tech Town: Governing Rural Migrants to Become Skilled Workers; The Government's Green Governmentality: Assigning Values to Territory and Resettling Migrants; "Building a New Filter" in the Town; Concentrating Migrants through Planning and Developing Songshanhu Three Governing Programs Targeting Potential Skilled LaborTransforming Pastoral Power during a "Regrouping" Process; Effects of Governance; References; 8 Resisting Governance: Production of Rural Migrants' Selves; Resistance and Its Patterns in Manufacturing Towns; A New Type of Resistance; Technologies of the Self for Resistance; Migrant Production of the Self as Resistance; "Massive Low Consumption" and Claim of Peasant Identities; Mimicking Urban Identifies by Imitation of Urban Consumption; "Voting with Their Feet"; Impacts of Migrant Resistance on Governance; References
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 284 pages)
• Subjects: 331.5/440951; Migrant labor -- China -- Social conditions; Rural-urban migration -- China; Manufacturing industries -- China -- Employees; Migrant labor -- Legal status, laws, etc -- China; Migrant labor -- Social conditions; China; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811333729; 9811333726
• Related ISBNs: 9811333718; 9789811333712
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2019).
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