Beyond Tears and Laughter Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China /

• Main Author: Shen, Yang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society
• Subjects: Labor economics.; Globalization.; Emigration and immigration.; Labor Economics.; Migration.

This book explores the experience of China's migrant laborers in Shanghai from economic, anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introducing migration, gender and service sector
• 2. Gendered subjectivities in a patriarchal China
• 3. Working in a gendered, feminised and hierarchical workplace
• 4. The shortlived jobs: from beginning to end
• 5. Negotiating intimacy: obedience, compromise and resistance
• 6. Crafting a modern person via consumption? Women and men in leisure activities
• 7. Unpacking the complexity of gender, class and hukou.