Gender, unemployment and female laid-off workers in state enterprises in contemporary China: Case studies of Beijing and Changzhou.
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This study aims to explore the lives of female laid-off workers in China based on field work in two cities: Beijing and Changzhou. The major issues raised are social and economic causes and consequences of female attribution in paid labor force since the mid 1980s, when the state enterprises were reformed from a planning to a marketing system. This study employs field interview in two factories in two cities, as well as survey of statistics and the documentary materials. In other words, the study includes both participant observation and secondary data analysis.;This studies, in addition, goes beyond evidences generated by field research in two factory. Through a historical review and a macro analysis of the national government's policies regarding lay-offs, women's experience and their family lives are situated in an historical, specific time: the era of the reforms.