Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime
Comparing Chinese and Indian Workplace-Residence Systems as Strategies of Migrant Labour Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Goodburn (0000-0003-1133-2775, King's College London, corresponding author), Soumya Mishra (0000-0001-9874-3037, King's College London) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 505-526 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170221142717 |
| OpenAlex | W4319039180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 42 |
This article explores two examples of worker housing in India, and compares these with China's 'dormitory labour regime', arguing that these methods of labour accommodation are part of a broader, increasingly global, workplace-residence regime aimed at migrant labour control for the purposes of value extraction. Contrary to previous studies, it argues that China's system is not unique, but part of the political economy of contemporary global capitalism. Although there exist historical and contextual variations between the two Indian case studies, drawn from the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) garment sector and the Andhra Pradesh electronics industry, as well as between the Indian and Chinese contexts, the aims and many of the outcomes are similar. Moving beyond a focus on the country- and space-specific 'dormitory labour regime' facilitates a broader understanding of the crucial role contemporary workplace-residence systems play in enhancing control of migrant labour for the benefit of global accumulation networks
Accommodation · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · China · Control (management · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Management · Migrant workers · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Spaces of possibilities, social control and refuge
An emerging 'camp labour regime
Do Working-Class Women in the Arab Region Benefit from Trade Liberalisation
Labour process theory and research on the changing nature of work and employment in China
Living at work
Analysing transnational labour mobility regimes
Embracing hope
Mapping Urban Divides
Internet Access for Seafarer Welfare or Managerial Control? The Experience of Chinese Seafarers
Normalisation of Wage and Benefit Theft in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry
Rethinking employee housing
Temporary Digital Enclaves
Industrial Fragmentation, Migration and Live-in Factories in Ahmedabad
Managing Work-Home Spillover
Resilience, Reworking, Resistance
Conceptualizing Responsibility Regarding Non-EU Temporary Migrants' Welfare in Romania
Migrant capital
Urbanising the Villages
Gender and the South China Miracle
Making Capitalism in China
The Origins and Social Consequences of China's Hukou System
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India
The Return of Merchant Capital
Informal Rental Housing Typologies and Experiences of Low-income Migrant Renters in Gurgaon, India
Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India
Sisters and Strangers
Theory as History
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Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
Factory regimes and the dismantling of established labour in Asia
Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children
Gendering the dormitory labor system
Growing Up in (and Out of) Shenzhen
Residence Permits and Points Systems
Importing export zones
Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects
Living on Site
Killing Us Slowly
A Value Theory of Inclusion
Continuity and Change in the Everyday Lives of Chinese Migrant Factory Workers
Factory daughters and Chinese modernity
The politics of production
Regimes of Dispossession
Labour in global production networks
Work and Family Life among Migrant Factory Workers in China and Vietnam
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
What Kind of Place is this
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
The impact of citizenship on labour process
Putting transnational labour process in its place
Transgressing North-South Divide
Democratic Practice and Social Inequality in India
Deadwood and paternalism
From field to factory
Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |