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Publication date: 1 September 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356948

Number of illustrations: 4

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Migrant Labour in Global Factories

Care, welfare and government under market socialism in China and Vietnam

Jake Lin (Author),  Minh Nguyen (Author),  Jingyu Mao (Author)

List of Figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction
2 Conceptualising the Politics of Care: Labour, Welfare and Government
3 Land development, labour commodification and the restructuring of welfare
4 Liberalising household registration, precaritising labour and commodifying social reproduction
5 Changing labour laws, individualisation of rights and flexibilisation of labour
6 Fiscal systems, welfare and the social reproduction of labour
7 Labour, welfare, government: unravelling the social contract under market socialism

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DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787356948

Number of illustrations: 4

Publication date: 01 September 2026

PDF ISBN: 9781787356948

EPUB ISBN: 9781787356955

Hardback ISBN: 9781787356924

Paperback ISBN: 9781787356931

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