Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satelite Factory System in Taiwan

Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satelite Factory System in Taiwan

Ping-Chun Hsiung

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot: Audiobook:

In Taiwan, small-scale subcontracting factories are found in rice fields and urban areas, front yards and living rooms, mostly employing married women in line with the government slogan that promotes work in the home Living Rooms as Factories. The author studies the experiences of the married women who work in this satellite system of factories.

Published: Jan 16, 1996

|

Est. Pages: 182

|View All Languages & Editions
Community recs if you liked this book...