Chinese Immigrant Women Workers
Everyday Forms of Resistance and “Coagulate Politics”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yu Shi (0000-0002-8585-9484, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-382 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420802412415 |
| OpenAlex | W1997512460 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area, this study presents a group of Chinese working-class immigrant women's daily struggles for material survival and their creativity in negotiating exploitative employment conditions. Several intersecting social constraints operate to prevent them from developing assertive attitudes, defiant behaviors, and collective actions. In reaction to these constraints, the women develop unique strategies to covertly resist and pragmatically adapt. Finally, I use political scientist James Scott's concept of “everyday forms of resistance” and Michael Hanchard's notion of “coagulate politics” to complicate the conceptualization of resistance
Assertiveness · Conceptualization · Creativity · Ethnography · Immigration · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |