Building China
Precarious Employment Among Migrant Construction Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2373874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Swider (0000-0001-6817-5753, Wayne State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-59 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0950017014526631 |
| OpenAlex | W2147487929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 29 |
In China, informal precarious work has exploded and now represents a majority of urban employment. This article explores precarious informal work by presenting a case study of migrant workers in the construction industry. Despite the fact that these workers are all unregistered migrants performing informal construction work, there exists a diversity of labour market situations, working conditions and work relations. This article introduces the concept of 'employment configuration' to analyse this diversity and to bring informal workers, who are operating outside of state regulations, back into our industrial labour relations framework. The concept of employment configuration also refocuses our attention from the dyadic worker-employer relationship to the more complex triad of the worker, the employer and the state, shedding light on varying sources of control and exploitation of these migrant workers
Business · China · Diversity (politics · Economic growth · Economics · Informal sector · Labour economics · Migrant workers · Political science · Precarious work · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Industrial Relations
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| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |