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From Forest Farm to Sawmill : Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State by Shuxuan Zhou (2024, Hardcover)
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These features make forestry a unique case with which to investigate how state policies constructed and reinforced intertwined and co-constitutive dualisms between humanity and nature, urban and rural places, production and reproduction, and male and female labor.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN-100295752661
ISBN-139780295752662
eBay Product ID (ePID)11065329762
Product Key Features
Number of Pages202 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFrom Forest Farm to Sawmill : Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
SubjectGender Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / General
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics
AuthorShuxuan Zhou
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-051400
ReviewsZhou offers interesting stories about forest laborers, particularly female workers, and their diligence, suffering, and activism. Zhou integrates her family odyssey into a compelling inquiry by exploring the interaction among three groups of people: migrant workers from Shandong, Zhejiang, and Shanghai in the 1950s; native villagers; and recent migrant workers from southwest China.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
SynopsisA worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformation Socialist China's state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry a unique case with which to investigate how state policies constructed and reinforced intertwined and co-constitutive dualisms between humanity and nature, urban and rural places, production and reproduction, and male and female labor. Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China's rapid economic development after the 1990s. Zhou shows how, in response to state development projects that exploited female labor, immigrants, rurality, and forests, workers created a space for their personal and political demands. In considering how sawmill and forest farmworkers creatively reconfigured state projects and challenged authority, this book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
LC Classification NumberCPB
