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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 911–937.
Published: 01 November 2005
... . 1984 . “ Power and Subjectivity in Foucault .” New Left Review , no. 144: 72 – 95 . Fantasia Rick . 1988 . Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Haboush Jahyun Kim . 1994...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 655–674.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Benjamin Uchiyama Abstract Following Japan's invasion of China in 1937, Japanese bureaucratic and intellectual elites constructed a volatile image of the munitions worker as trickster. Within this discursive realm, the worker became an object of hope, fear, and rage for the guardians...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 555–557.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Josephine Lee The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form . By Caroline H. Yang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press 2020 . xiii, 280 pp. ISBN: 9781503612051 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Five...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 861–862.
Published: 01 August 1969
...Robert S. Ozaki The Other Worker . By Arthur M. Whitehill Jr . and Shin-Ichi Takezawa . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1968 . xviii , 481 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Figures, and Tables. $12.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1041–1042.
Published: 01 August 1975
...Stephen Andors The Chinese Worker . By Charles Hoffman . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1974 . xi, 252 pp. Tables, Notes, Appendices, Indexes. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 1041 in other Chinese villages. Some...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 471–472.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Anita Chan Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia's Four New Tigers: A Comparative Perspective . By Marvin J. Levine . New York : Plenum Press , 1997 . xv, 476 pp. $69.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 471...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1380–1381.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Patricia L. Maclachlan Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers . By John McCreery . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . 216 pp. $24.95 (paper); $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1380 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Elizabeth J. Perry Les Cent Fleurs à I'usine: Agitation ouvrière et crise du modèle soviétique en Chine, 1956–1957 . [The Hundred Flowers in the factory: Worker unrest and the crisis of the Soviet model in China, 1956–1957] . By François Gipouloux . Paris : École des Hautes Études en...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 519–521.
Published: 01 May 2016
... at a particular moment; moreover, much of her interview material and observations appear to come from around 2007. Another issue is her description of temporary workers as grounding their indignation over unequal treatment in memories of workforce treatment in the time of Mao (p. 188). But, given that most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 252–253.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Kaxton Siu From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia . By Michele Ford . Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press , 2019 . xii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781501735141 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020...
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Published: 01 November 2012
Figure 1. State-farm worker Wang Zheng playing a peasant heroine in the 1974 film A Safety Belt (一副保险带), a film that exemplified the practice of “workers/peasants/soldiers playing workers/peasants/soldiers.” She now teaches women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan. Photograph
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 890–893.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Jieyu Liu New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China . By Yan Hairong . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2008 . x , 314 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China . By Tiantian Zheng...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Peter Yang Although the editors do not specify the intended readership of this volume, Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State would be an informative read for college courses in political science, Chinese politics, and public policy, as well as labor and social law and policies. Scholars, policy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 292–294.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jinhee Lee The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan . By Ken C. Kawashima . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2009 . x , 297 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Although there has been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 638–639.
Published: 01 August 1964
...Monroe Berkowitz Workers, Factories, and Social Change in India . By Richard D. Lambert . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1963 . xiii, 247 . $5.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 638 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to state the basic issues...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 813–814.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Hagen Koo They Are Not Machines: Korean Women Workers and Their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s . Edited by Chun Soonok . Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate , 2003 . xiv, 214 pp. £40.00/$69.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Stacey G. H. Yap Asian Women as Transitional Domestic Workers . Edited by Shirlena Huang , Brenda S. A. Yeoh , and Noor Abdul Rahman . Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Academic , 2005 . xvii , 428 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 777–804.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Sarah Kovner Abstract This article examines how the bodies of Japanese women became a key site of political and cultural contestation during the Allied occupation. The sale of sex, once legally recognized and regulated, became a conspicuous symbol of postwar chaos. Ostracizing sex workers who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1152–1154.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Paul Bailey Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War . By Xu Guoqi . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2011 . ix, 336 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Until recently the story of the nearly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 751–768.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Jesook Song Abstract This article draws on ethnographic research to elucidate ways in which young women's care labor is appropriated by the state as “free labor” in South Korea. Building upon John Krinsky's notion of free labor as state-orchestrated exploitation of public sector workers...
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