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  • 4 - Like Riding a Roller Coaster

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 68-90

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the different types of illicit and informal economy in the two migrant communities and examines why and how Sanhe gods get involved in the gray economy. It also discusses state intervention in the communities through surveillance, raids, and compaigns as well as through gentrification projects. It ends with a discussion on Sanhe gods’ friendships in the community.

  • 2 - Boundary Setting

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 22-42

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the different subgroups of Sanhe gods – day laborers, job intermediaries, and gambling dogs – and their experiences of becoming precarious to varying degrees. It also explores the space of the urban village that sustains the everyday life of Sanhe gods, providing them with food, shelter, clothing, showering, pawning, and other types of goods and services. It ends with a discussion on the subculture of Sanhe gods and its presence on the internet.

  • 3 - Stay or Run

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 43-67

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the reasons why workers would stay in or run from a factory, as well as the traps and perceived appeal of temporary employment and day labor jobs. It discusses the role of employment service agencies and their networks of job intermediaries in sustaining factories’ power and control over workers and in making workers more vulnerable and more susceptible to informal and temporary employment.

  • 5 - Curb Your Enthusiasm

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 91-109

  • Summary

    This chapter explores Sanhe gods’ hybridized masculinity across rural–urban and class boundaries. It also discusses their online and offline sexual discourses, desires, and involvement in paid sex.

  • 6 - Conclusion

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 110-130

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the larger implications of Sanhe gods’ experiences. It analyzes the various forms of their resistance, from non-compliance to direct confrontation, and the state’s mechanisms of control, from gentrification to coercion. It ends with a discussion on Sanhe gods’ precarious future, as flexible employment becomes more widespread and the prospects for settling down in cities reduce even when the great gods have intentions to stay. It presents migrant workers’ experiences not only of factory hopping but also, and increasingly, of city hopping, as both livelihood strategies and coping strategies formed in response to state policies and repression.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • Xiaoshuo Hou, Skidmore College, New York
  • Book:
    Young and Restless in China
    Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 1-21

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the connection between informality, migration, and precarity and how urban villages are formed in China. It discusses the contribution of the book and the fieldwork methods and introduces the readers to the structure of the book.

Young and Restless in China
  • Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat
  • Xiaoshuo Hou
  • Published online:
    02 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024
  • At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) – migrant workers, mostly male and born in the 1990s, who are disappointed by exploitative factories and thus choose short-term employment and day labor – in urban migrant communities. Based on ethnographic studies in two of those communities in China, this book analyzes the gendered and gendering aspects of labor, reveals the different processes of precarization among workers, and discusses the role of the diverse intermediaries who both sustain workers' livelihoods and reproduce their precarity.

Community Capitalism in China
  • The State, the Market, and Collectivism
  • Xiaoshuo Hou
  • Published online:
    05 March 2013
    Print publication:
    18 February 2013
  • Hou proposes to end the dichotomous view of the state and the market, and capitalism and communism, by examining the local institutional innovation in three villages in China and presents community capitalism as an alternative to the neoliberal model of development. Community is both the unit of redistribution and the entity that mobilizes resources to compete in the market; collectivism creates the boundary that sets the community apart from the outside and justifies and sustains the model. Community capitalism differs from Mao-era collectivism, when individual interests were buried in the name of collective interests and market competition was not a concern. This book demonstrates the embeddedness of the market in community, showing how social relations, group solidarity, power, honor, and other values play an important role in these villages' social and economic organization.

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