Front Matter

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Introduction
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State-Socialist Era (1949—The 1980s)
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2. Equalizing Gender and Class
  
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3. Socialist Workers, National Heroines
  
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4. Women’s Triple Burden
  
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Market-Reform Era (The 1990s—Present)
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  Pages 77-77
  
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2. Labor Denigration and Work–Family Conflict
  
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3. Women’s Domestic-Role Orientation
  
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4. Diverse Roles, A Common Dilemma
  
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5. A Different Marital Equality
  
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Conclusion
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2. Conclusion and Implications
  
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Back Matter

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About this book

This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women’s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of their strategies to resist market brutality and their struggles to balance work and family demands. The book also explores urban women’s non-market definitions of marital equality, and highlights theoretical and policy implications concerning market efficiency, marital equality, and the state’s role in protecting public good.

Keywords

women
China
urban
work
family
gender
labor
market reform
Mao
marital inequality

Authors and Affiliations

St. Cloud State University , Saint Cloud, USA

Jiping Zuo

About the author

Jiping Zuo is Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University, USA. Her research interests are in social construction of family roles, marital inequality, and state-family relations in contemporary China. Her recent publications can be found in Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Rural Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Science & Society.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Work and Family in Urban China
Book Subtitle: Women’s Changing Experience since Mao
Authors: Jiping Zuo
Series Title: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55465-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55464-2Published: 31 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55465-9Published: 27 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-2355
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 215
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, International Political Economy, Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Sociology of Work, Children, Youth and Family Policy

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Front Matter

State-Socialist Era (1949—The 1980s)

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Market-Reform Era (The 1990s—Present)

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Conclusion

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St. Cloud State University , Saint Cloud, USA

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