Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary China. In exploring their struggles and conflicts in their private and social lives, at and away from home, the author hopes to show how the sufferers structure their own lives, their freedoms, rights, and constraints, and how they think and feel about their actions of acquiescence, compromise, resistance, and protest within the existing power relations. Informed by a framework that connects governmentality and the lifeworld of the victim, the books endeavors to shed new empirical and theoretical light on how the socially marginalized encounter and understand domination in everyday life in the specific context of China now and in the foreseeable future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Ethnographies
Antal sidor232
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526113610

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Preface Series editor's forewordMapsPart I: Life in perspective 1. Facts, theoretical gaze, and journeys2. Sick workers as homines sacri Part II: Responses to marginality3. Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick role status4. Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance5. Coalminers: the compromising citizenryPart III: Sick life governed6. Law as a technique of governmentality7. The future of Chinese marginalityAppendixReferencesIndex

'A well-written and original research monograph, which is an enjoyable read. The empirical and theoretical contributions of this book are significant.'Desai Shan, Dalhousie University, Canada, Work, Employment and Society, August 2019'This is is a compelling and informative account of lived experiences of occupational illness among Chinese workers and their struggles for compensation.'China Review