| Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China Contributor(s): Ho, Wing-Chung (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526113619 ISBN-13: 9781526113610 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Public Health - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| LCCN: 2018285350 |
| Series: New Ethnographies |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |