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As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China”TMs Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the emplo

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Author

Ngai, Pun

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822386759

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Business, Science

Updated

2026-03-24