Overview
- Offers a rich empirical study of the political rationales, interactions, strategies, and tactics of authorities in recruiting migrant workers from non-factory areas as cheap labour
- Highlights public space as a governing tool and shows how authorities shape space to facilitate governance
- Provides an original descriptive theoretical model of the governance of rural migrants in China
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Rise of Manufacturing Towns
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Transformation of Manufacturing Towns
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Revolution of Manufacturing Towns
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“The book Manufacturing Towns in China weaves together various actors, policies and regulations, governance technologies, adaptations and resistances and develops an insightful and well-elaborated argument on the ‘invisible filter’ of the territorial governance in China. … Readers are guided through a journey of different events in the past as well as in the present, in the West as well as in the East and amongsocialists as well as capitalists.” (June Wang, Eurasian Geography and Economics, July 16, 2019)
“This book offers a welcome intervention into the literature on rural-to-urban migration by taking space and scale seriously as components of power. Those interested in how non-factory spaces and local authorities are central to the management, discipline and policing of migrant labor should read this compelling book.” (Professor Lisa Hoffman, University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
“Yue Gong’s book contributes to unveiling a forgotten and yet illuminating space where a variety of everyday practices and resistances can be explored. This book discloses power and resistance, an excellent work appealing to readers concerned with space, migration and labor in China.” (Professor Ngai Pun, University of Hong Kong, Author of Made in China and Migrant Labor in China)
“This well-organized book is an excellent work in presenting many first-hand materials about the governance of rural migrants as cheap labor and a detailed analysis of the social fabric of manufacturing towns.” (Chunbing Xing, Professor of Economics, Beijing Normal University, China)
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Book Title: Manufacturing Towns in China
Book Subtitle: The Governance of Rural Migrant Workers
Authors: Yue Gong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3372-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3371-2Published: 17 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3372-9Published: 29 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 284
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology