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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, vol. 53, no. 3, May 2019, pp. 800–21. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S0026749X17000919.
Journal cover image

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