Janet Salaff
Biographic Data
| ID | 102368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Salaff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Salaff |
| SIGNATURE | SALAFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality
This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. Fourteen leading authorities from diverse backgrounds bring their expertise to bear on these cities across four continents and consider the major regional and global roles they play in economic, polit…
Gendered structural barriers to job attainment for skilled Chinese emigrants in Canada
Our study examines the career achievements of 50 professional couples that immigrated from China to Canada. We compare their job attainment when they left China with that years after immigration. We apply concepts of human capital and institutional theory to understand why the job status of the majority drops after immigrating. Human capital concepts account for most career advancement in China. Human capital theory falls short in explaining the …
Professionals from China: Entrepreneurship and Social Resources in a Strange Land
New skilled immigrants may have a hard time getting jobs. Among other reasons, local employers may not value their foreign-earned credentials. This could prompt professional and technical immigrants to start a business instead. In this paper, we examined how educated immigrants from the People's Republic of China avoid underemployment in Canada by setting up their own businesses. We found that many immigrants brought entrepreneurial backgrounds w…
Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System: Housing Experiences of Women in Hong Kong . Kim Wah Chan Welfare in Newly-Industrialised Society: The Construction of the Welfare State …
Japan's 'International' Youth: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Lao Peasants Under Socialism.Grant Evans
The Emergence of Private Life: Political-Economic Background and Symbolic Meanings
State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society
Feminism and Socialism in China
Women in Chinese Society
Modern times’ in Hong Kong
“Full house” reads the box office sign at the Oriental Theatre as Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times continues its popular run in Hong Kong. In one of the ironies of Hong Kong life, this classic that won popularity in the West for its nose-thumbing at the inhumanities of capitalist industrial organization now appeals to the Chinese audience for the same reasons—the relief, through humor, of Western-caused industrial pressures. I saw the film wit…
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Gendered structural barriers to job attainment for skilled Chinese emigrants in Canada
Our study examines the career achievements of 50 professional couples that immigrated from China to Canada. We compare their job attainment when they left China with that years after immigration. We apply concepts of human capital and institutional theory to understand why the job status of the majority drops after immigrating. Human capital concepts account for most career advancement in China. Human capital theory falls short in explaining the …
Modern times’ in Hong Kong
“Full house” reads the box office sign at the Oriental Theatre as Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times continues its popular run in Hong Kong. In one of the ironies of Hong Kong life, this classic that won popularity in the West for its nose-thumbing at the inhumanities of capitalist industrial organization now appeals to the Chinese audience for the same reasons—the relief, through humor, of Western-caused industrial pressures. I saw the film wit…
Women in Chinese Society
Feminism and Socialism in China
The Emergence of Private Life: Political-Economic Background and Symbolic Meanings
State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society
Lao Peasants Under Socialism.Grant Evans
Japan's 'International' Youth: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System: Housing Experiences of Women in Hong Kong . Kim Wah Chan Welfare in Newly-Industrialised Society: The Construction of the Welfare State …
Professionals from China: Entrepreneurship and Social Resources in a Strange Land
New skilled immigrants may have a hard time getting jobs. Among other reasons, local employers may not value their foreign-earned credentials. This could prompt professional and technical immigrants to start a business instead. In this paper, we examined how educated immigrants from the People's Republic of China avoid underemployment in Canada by setting up their own businesses. We found that many immigrants brought entrepreneurial backgrounds w…
Gendered structural barriers to job attainment for skilled Chinese emigrants in Canada
Our study examines the career achievements of 50 professional couples that immigrated from China to Canada. We compare their job attainment when they left China with that years after immigration. We apply concepts of human capital and institutional theory to understand why the job status of the majority drops after immigrating. Human capital concepts account for most career advancement in China. Human capital theory falls short in explaining the …
World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality
This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. Fourteen leading authorities from diverse backgrounds bring their expertise to bear on these cities across four continents and consider the major regional and global roles they play in economic, polit…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)