SIU, Kaxton. 2020. Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract

In this volume, Kaxton Siu sets out to investigate whether “China’s export-led industrialisation” (p. 14) provides a unique pattern of economic development. Bringing together more than ten years of research, Siu draws from a wealth of sources: from his own quantitative surveys and ethnographic observation to oral history (by female garment workers in Hong Kong between 1960 and the 1980s). He also thoroughly engages with the insights of the history and sociology of labour, of studies of labour...