Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (Contemporary China Series) Liu

Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women"s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the macro-structural features of this process, this book makes the voices of ordinary women workers heard and applies feminist perspectives on women and work to the Chinese situation.