China

Zhongguo Fei Zhenggui Jiuye Fazhan Baogao

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

Dagongmei: Arbeiterinnen aus Chinas Weltmarktfabriken erzahlen

German version of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace and the Oral Accounts of Dagongmei

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

China’s New Underclass: Paid Domestic Labour

Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies

Street vending represents a vital and growing aspect of the urban informal economy that is often the subject of municipal regulatory efforts...

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in GuangzhouIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting...

Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzen Special Economic Zone, China

In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs

The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...