Masculinity at Its Margins
Migrant Construction Work in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4520482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Thomson (0000-0002-8081-7816), William T Thomson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 306-320 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2017.0084 |
| OpenAlex | W2766043570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
Most ethnographic literature on migrant labor in China has addressed factory work, highlighting the role of manufacturing jobs in shaping new consumer desires and future expectations for the predominantly female migrant workforce. This paper contrasts manufacturing with construction, an industry where physical building labor is dominated by rural male migrant labor. For women in factories, urban work often serves as a tool for challenging traditional rural gender structures. By contrast, for young unmarried migrant men from marginal rural areas, urban wages tend to sustain, rather than disrupt, gendered expectations and desires for continuation of traditional family and community structures
China · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Labour economics · Masculinity · Migrant workers · Political science · Sociology · Workforce · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Chinese Society
New Masters, New Servants
Shortage of girls in China today
Engendering Chinese modernity
Sexuality in diasporic space
Transnational Urbanism in the Reform-era Chinese City
Desiring China
China's Peasants
Modernity and the Urban Imagination in Economic Zones
They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |