Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai
Made in China is an ethnographic look at the lives of the dagongmei, Chinese women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural villages to work in China's proliferating urban industrial factories.
Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China's Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family.
Pun Ngai is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is coeditor of Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City and the founder and chair of the Chinese Working Women Network (www.cwwn.org), a grassroots organization of migrant women factory workers in China.
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