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Elly Leung
Bio: Elly Leung is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Governmentality. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 8 publications receiving 14 citations.
Topics: China, Governmentality, Working class, Consciousness, Power-knowledge
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TL;DR: The authors explored how the lived experience of everyday Chinese workers influenced their struggle to improve their working conditions, and argued that because workers' consciousness of everyday workers remains at an embryonic level, their ability to campaign and change working conditions remains constrained.
Abstract: This paper presents findings from a study that has explored how the lived experience of everyday Chinese workers influenced their struggle to improve their working conditions. We argue that because the consciousness of everyday Chinese workers remains at an embryonic level, their ability to campaign and change their working conditions remains constrained. We inform this argument by engaging with Foucault’s power–knowledge framework (1980). The study draws on original interviews with n = 74 Chinese workers gathered across two phases of data collection conducted between 2011 and 2014.
7 citations
01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: This article applied Foucault's genealogical (or historicalization) methods to analyze the historical events that shaped worker consciousness and working-class politics in today's China, and applied these methods to the analysis of workers' consciousness and social relations.
Abstract: This chapter applies Foucault’s (1991) genealogical (or historicalization) methods to analyze the historical events that (re-) shaped worker consciousness and working-class politics in today’s China.
3 citations
01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: The authors assesses the potential for labor activism in China to develop into an organized worker's movement that is capable of challenging communist control, and proposes a model for organizing workers in China.
Abstract: This book assesses the potential for labor activism in China to develop into an organized worker’s movement that is capable of challenging communist control.
3 citations
01 Jan 2020
1 citations
01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: The authors discuss the two phases of original field data gathered from 52 everyday workers in Group One, who had never engaged in any protest activities, across a range of industries and occupations at multiple locations between 2011 and 2014 in China.
Abstract: In this chapter, I discuss the two phases of original field data gathered from 52 everyday workers in Group One—who had never engaged in any protest activities—across a range of industries and occupations at multiple locations between 2011 and 2014 in China.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss history and class consciousness in the context of Marxist Dialectics, and present a history of class consciousness and its application in economic issues, including economic inequality.
Abstract: (1974). History and Class Consciousness. Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 167-170.
705 citations
TL;DR: Ching Kwan Lee, et al. as mentioned in this paper published a solid study of labo-Ur politics in contemporary China, which is based on years of work in the field of political science.
Abstract: Ching Kwan Lee, (2007), x + 325 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $55.00, paperback $21.95). This book is a solid study of laboUr politics in contemporary China. Largely based on years of ...
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TL;DR: A review of the book "Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest" by Tim Pringle is presented in this paper, where the authors discuss the challenges of labour unrest in China.
Abstract: A review is presented of the book "Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest," by Tim Pringle.
40 citations
TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional survey that examined occupational stress and symptoms of poor mental health was implemented among Chinese women factory workers in three electronic factories in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area.
Abstract: Foreign direct investment (FDI) to China has motivated increased labor migration to export processing zones (EPZs). Work environments with high occupational stress, such as production line jobs typical in EPZs, have been associated with adverse mental health symptoms. A cross-sectional survey that examined occupational stress and symptoms of poor mental health was implemented among Chinese women factory workers in three electronic factories in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area. Symptoms of mental health measured in the survey were hopelessness, depression, not feeling useful or needed, and trouble concentrating. Crude and adjusted prevalence odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated with logistic regression. Responses were collected from 696 women factory workers. Participants were aged 18–56 years (mean 28 ± 5.8), 66% of whom were married and 25% of whom were migrants. Nearly 50% of participants reported at least one symptom of poor mental health. After adjusting for covariates associated with each outcome in the bivariate analysis, high job strain was associated with hopelessness (OR 2.68, 95% CI 1.58, 4.56), not feeling useful (OR 2.05, 95% CI 1.22, 3.43), and feeling depressed (OR 1.78, 95% CI 1.16, 2.72). This study expands on the international body of research on the well-being of women working in the global supply chain and provides evidence on the associations between occupational stressors, migration, and social support on symptoms of poor mental health among women workers. Future research to better understand and improve psychological health and to prevent suicide among workers in China’s factories is critical to improve the health of China’s labor force.
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