3 - Stay or Run
The Perpetual Question
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2024
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This chapter explores the reasons why workers would stay in or run from a factory, as well as the traps and perceived appeal of temporary employment and day labor jobs. It discusses the role of employment service agencies and their networks of job intermediaries in sustaining factories’ power and control over workers and in making workers more vulnerable and more susceptible to informal and temporary employment.
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- Young and Restless in ChinaInformal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat, pp. 43 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024