Chinese male peasant workers and shifting masculine identities in urban workspaces

Lin, Xiaodong and Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin 2013. Chinese male peasant workers and shifting masculine identities in urban workspaces. Gender, Work & Organization 20 (5) , pp. 498-511. 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2012.00598.x

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Abstract

A key feature of China's internal rural–urban migration is the transformation of work from a rural-based agricultural sector to urban-based industrial and service sectors. This article critically examines the interplay between urban work and accompanying social relations in the workplace (that is, service and low-skilled manual jobs) and the (re)construction of male peasant workers' subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data from the men's life histories suggest that familial gender practices, conceptualized as an appropriation of the traditional Confucian ‘father–son’ relationship, are of importance in shaping the men's occupationally located shifting identities in traditional urban ‘female’ jobs. This exploratory study aims to examine complex and multilayered accounts of rural–urban labour migration, in terms of how the men accommodate themselves to the city, involving both material constraints (structure) and creative cultural practices (agency). Their biographical transformations are located within wider socioeconomic and political transformations associated with China's current modernization project, of which they are a major constitutive component.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Uncontrolled Keywords:	rural men; masculine identities; gender relations; migration; workplace
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0968-6673
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33662

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