China and Globalization in the Amazon
Workers, Expatriates, and the Chinese Production Model
- 122 pages
- English
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China and Globalization in the Amazon
Workers, Expatriates, and the Chinese Production Model
About this book
China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private, or state-owned, it explores the impact of these factories on the lives of workers, specifically on wages, laws, and labor benefits, as well as the relationship between management and workers. Drawing on interviews with Brazilian workers, expatriate Chinese workers, union leaders, and factory managers, the author identifies a Chinese production model and sheds light on the implementation of externally defined work regimes that showed little engagement with the workforce in the region, together with practices that resulted in a technical or bureaucratic relationship with the worker, and the emergence of lower wages than the local average, as well as few concessions on labor benefits. A study of Chinese globalization and industrial expansion in the developing world, and the reactions of workers to the Chinese model of management, this volume will be of interest to scholars of the sociology of work and organizations, globalization, development studies, and politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of graphics
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: The Chinese globalization and the new silk road in the Amazon
- 2 From Mao to a New Dawn? Fundamentals of Chinese globalization at home and abroad
- 3 A Tropical Silk Road: Capital and genesis of Chinese production model in the Amazon
- 4 Heavy factories: The Chinese Production Model and its impacts on workers
- 5 From Iron Rice Bowl to açai bowl: The journey of Chinese expatriates to the Amazon
- 6 Conclusion: Toward a global Chinese production model
- Works cited
- Index