Manufacturing towns in China : the governance of rural migrant workers /
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| Author / Creator: | Gong, Yue Ray, author. |
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| Imprint: | Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xix, 284 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11808414 |
Table of 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
