Occupational health and social estrangement in China (New Ethnographies)

By: Wing-Chung Ho

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Synopsis: This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary China. In exploring their struggles and conflicts in their private and social lives, at and away from home, the author hopes to show how the sufferers structure their own lives, their freedoms, rights, and constraints, and how they think and feel about their actions of acquiescence, compromise, resistance, and protest within the existing power relations. Informed by a framework that connects governmentality and the lifeworld of the victim, the books endeavors to shed new empirical and theoretical light on how the socially marginalized encounter and understand domination in everyday life in the specific context of China now and in the foreseeable future.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 232 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781526113641
Related ISBNs:: 9781526113634, 9781526113610
Publisher:: Manchester University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/01/24
Copyrighted By:: Wing-Chung Ho
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.