Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China
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Chu, N
Published in: Modern Asian Studies
May 1, 2019
This article introduces South China's jiagongchang household workshops as marginal hubs of affective and industrial labour, which are produced by migrant women's yearnings for people and places far away. Temporary sites and precarious forms of low-wage production serve as fragmented and provisional resources of sociality and labour as migrant workers and urban villages gradually become incorporated within the urban fabric. The unrequited longings of migrant women who work in factories and as caretakers demonstrate how marginal hubs are created through disjunctures of emplacement and mobility, which are intensified as these women attempt to bridge the contradictions entailed in care work and industrial labour across the supply chains.
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Modern Asian Studies
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1469-8099
ISSN
0026-749X
Publication Date
May 1, 2019
Volume
53
Issue
3
Start / End Page
800 / 821
Related Subject Headings
- Cultural Studies
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Chu, N. (2019). Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China. Modern Asian Studies, 53(3), 800–821. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X17000919
Chu, N. “Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China.” Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 3 (May 1, 2019): 800–821. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X17000919.
Chu N. Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China. Modern Asian Studies. 2019 May 1;53(3):800–21.
Chu, N. “Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 800–21. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S0026749X17000919.
Chu N. Jiagongchang Household Workshops as Marginal Hubs of Women's Subcontracted Labour in Guangzhou, China. Modern Asian Studies. 2019 May 1;53(3):800–821.
Published In
Modern Asian Studies
DOI
EISSN
1469-8099
ISSN
0026-749X
Publication Date
May 1, 2019
Volume
53
Issue
3
Start / End Page
800 / 821
Related Subject Headings
- Cultural Studies