- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers' in-work poverty in western China.
The research presented in this book identifies the causes and the consequences of precarious employment and in-work poverty and analyses the stakeholders' responses to the changes in the context of employment in China's socialist market economy. The book explains why precarious workers tend to remain outsiders to rapid socio-economic transformation and informs readers as to how people make choices, how those with different abilities adapt to the process of de-traditionalisation and how marketisation changes people's lifestyles, value systems, policy designs.
Detailing empirical investigations of the experience and dynamics of workers' precarious life, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese society, social policy and poverty.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Capability approach to the study of poverty
- 2 Precarious employment and precarious life
- 3 Family configurations, support responsibilities, and wellbeing
- 4 Dependency on social capital and isolation in social relations
- 5 The effect of social assistance policy on precarity and in-work poverty
- 6 Subjective wellbeing, agency, and coping strategies
- Conclusion: Capability deprivation in the risk society
- Appendix 1: The research validity and methods
- Appendix 2: Outline of semi-structured in-depth interview
- Appendix 3: Reasoning process behind the tentative basic capability list and aggregation guidelines of capability deprivation
- Index