Norma Diamond

Women and Industry in Taiwan

One of the factors underlying Taiwans industrial growth over the past two decades has been the availability of a pool of underemployed, young workers who will accept relatively low wages, who are unlikely to raise demands for higher pay, shorter hours, or seniority benefits and who, in many instances, expect only short-term employment. Women are a significant segment of this industrial work force. By the start of the 1970s, at least 20% of the employed population over the age of 15 was engaged in manufacturing. Of these, 33% were women, most of whom were between the ages of 15 and 25 (Taiwan Provincial Labor Force Survey and Research Institute, 1971). While their male counterparts, also relatively young, held an expectation of continuous employment, increased skill-learning and job advancement within the factory workplace, the women workers were more likely to see their jobs as a brief interim between school and marriage (Kung, 1976). A major concern in my research is the effect of outside employment on womens status, autonomy, and control over their future and present lives. There is a fairly simplistic model of womens liberation in circulation which assumes that increased participation in the work force by women will modify or radically change their position within their natal households and give them the power to shape their future lives. There is no question that

Collectivization, kinship, and the status of women in Rural China

AbstractThe marked improvements in the status of women in China since Liberation have attracted the attention not only of scholars but also of those of us involved in the womens liberation movemen...

Religion Under Socialism in China.@@@Religion in China Today: Policy and Practice.@@@The Turning of the Tide: Religion in China Today.

Undoubtedly, the greatest problem facing religion in China today is the fundamentally irreconcilable contradiction between Marxism and religious world views. These essays, published by the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in association with Oxford University Press, and written by an international group of scholars, critically examine different aspects of the present religious state in China.

Security and alienation in contemporary China

Barlow, Tani E., and Donald M. Lowe. Chinese Reflections: Americans Teaching in the Peoples Republic. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1985. xviii + 250 pp. including index.

Prosperity on Tobacco road

17.95 cloth. Yue Daiyun, and Carolyn Wakeman. To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xxv + 405 pp. including index.

China's Cities: Tradition and change

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North China villages : social, political and economic activities before 1933

Myron L. Cohen. House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. xvi + 270 pp. Figures, tables, appendixes, references, character list, and index.

Women Under Kuomintang R ule Variations on the Feminine Mystique

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Russia and Eurasia/China

Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner, eds. The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974. xiii + 458 pp. Tables, maps, notes, character list, and index.

Taitou Revisited: State Policies and Social Change

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