By Ching Kwan Lee
Either Yuk-ling, a hectic Hong Kong mom of 2, and Chi-ying, a tender unmarried lady from a distant village in northern China, paintings in electronics factories owned by way of an analogous overseas company, production exact digital elements. After a decade of activity development and extending international funding in Hong Kong and South China, either ladies also are partaking within the magnificent monetary transformation that has emerge as referred to as the South China miracle. but, as Ching Kwan Lee demonstrates in her particular and engaging research of girls employees on each side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border, the operating lives and manufacturing facility cultures of those girls are drastically different.In this wealthy comparative ethnography, Lee describes how notably various manufacturing unit cultures have emerged from a interval of profound fiscal switch. In Hong Kong, "matron employees" stay in factories for many years. In Guangdong, a possible never-ending variety of younger "maiden staff" trip to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of upper wages. while the ladies in Hong Kong perform a administration process characterised via "familial hegemony," the younger women in Guangdong locate an inner process of strength in keeping with local politics and relations connections, or "localistic despotism."Having labored side-by-side with those girls at the flooring of either factories, Lee concludes that it truly is essentially the variations within the gender politics of the 2 hard work markets that verify the tradition of every manufacturing facility. Posing an bold problem to sociological theories that decrease exertions politics to natural economics or kingdom energy constructions, Lee argues that gender performs an important function within the cultures and administration thoughts of factories that depend seriously on ladies employees.
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MEN WOMEN (SHIL. A WEEK) (SHIL. 5[48] In the textile industry, in which women are better organized than elsewhere (there being 96,000), there existed in 1906 the preceding difference between the wages of men and women (see table, p. 84). The organization of women laborers was first advocated by Mrs. Paterson and Miss Simcox at the trade-union congress held in Glasgow in 1875. But this organization is confronted with the same difficulties as exist elsewhere: the women believe that they are engaged in non-domestic work only temporarily; therefore they are interested in the improvement of labor only to a slight degree, and in addition are burdened with housework; while the male laborer is free when the factory closes.
Not only the antiquated marriage laws are inconsistent with the national political rights of women; in the municipal election laws, too, woman is treated unjustly. Married women do not exercise the right of suffrage, and widows and unmarried women possess the passive suffrage only in the election of poor-law administrators and school boards. Two woman's suffrage organizations--Unionen and Finsk Kvinnoforening--have existed since 1906; they have no party affiliations. Two new woman's suffrage societies--Swenska Kinnoforbundet and Naitlütto (Young-Finnish)--are party organizations.
The salaries of the women are everywhere lower than those of the men. In 1908 there were 12,000 women teachers in the elementary schools, their annual salary being 1400 crowns ($375) or more. There are 35 women doctors in Sweden, most of whom practice in Stockholm. The Swedish midwives are well trained. Nursing is a respected calling for educated women; also kinesiatrics (hygienic gymnastics), the latter being lucrative as well. The first woman Doctor of Philosophy was Ellen Fries, who received the degree in 1883.