Shenzhen; Migrant workers; Representation; Ideology; Special Zone; China
Abstract :
[en] This chapter explores how rural-to-urban migrants were taught how to be workers in post-Mao China. As they learned to work in capitalist enterprises and to narrate their own life stories, they became national models. Their exploitation, however, challenged the legitimacy of a ruling party whose founding narratives continued to reject capitalist exploitation.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Florence, Eric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité
Language :
English
Title :
How to Be a Shenzhener: Representations of Migrant Labor in Shenzhen’s Second Decade
Publication date :
February 2017
Main work title :
Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
