Precariousness in High-Growth Economies: Comparing Labor in Contemporary China and in Postwar Japan and France [Hardcover]

Introduction??Chapter 1 Payslips: Personal records to explore labour conditions??Chapter 2 The working-class household economy: frugality, discipline and strategies??Chapter 3 Finding a voice: worker demands for recognition??Chapter 4 A regulated class struggle? Minimum wage policies in a growth regime??Chapter 5 In the name of human value. Religion and ethics in the business world??General Conclusion

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This book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France.?

Gilles Guiheux is Professor at Universit? Paris Cit? (France). A China specialist, he works on economic sociology and the sociology of labor. His most recent research focuses on Chinese garment workers. His publications include Contemporary China: 1919 to the Present (2023) and, with Eric Florence, a special issue of Le Mouvement social on Labour Regimes in China (2023/4).

Bernard Thomann is Professor at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco, Paris), and Director of the Institut fran?ais de recherches sur l'Asie de l'Est, where he conducts research on the history of labor and social policies in contemporary Japan.  He is the author of La Naissance de l'Etat social japonais. Biopolitique, travail et citoyennet? dans le Japon imp?rial (18681945) (2015), Le Salari? et l'entreprise dans le Japon contemporain. Formes, gen?se et mutations d'une relation de d?pendance, 18681999 (2008).

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