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
References
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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