Young and Restless in China

Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvXiaoshuo Hou

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At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) - migrant workers, mostly male and born in the 1990s, who are disappointed by exploitative factories and thus choose short-term employment and day labor - in urban migrant communities. Based on ethnographic studies in two of those communities in China, this book analyzes the gendered and gendering aspects of labor, reveals the different processes of precarization among workers, and discusses the role of the diverse intermediaries who both sustain workers' livelihoods and reproduce their precarity.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-18
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor169
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009511711

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Xiaoshuo Hou is Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Skidmore College where she held the inaugural Frances Young Tang '61 Chair in Chinese Studies (2016-2021). She is the author of Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism (2013) and one of the co-editors of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2020) and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (2016).

List of figures; Preface; 1. Introduction: the great gods of Sanhe and the precariat in China; 2. Boundary setting: the formation of an identity; 3. Stay or run: the perpetual question; 4. Like riding a roller coaster: money, illegality, and relationship; 5. Curb your enthusiasm: gender, sex, and sexuality; 6. Conclusion: young and restless in China: a precarious future; Bibliography; Appendix: reflections on experiences in the field.