Dormitory labour regimes and the labour process in China: New workers in old factory forms

Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 228-246

  Pun, Ngai ^a   Smith, Chris ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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