3,039
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The 6pm struggle: the changing meaning of work, a culture of overtime work, and corporate governmentality in urban China

References

  • Allison, Anne. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Beck, Ulrich. 2000. The Brave New World of Work. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Berardi, Franco “Bifo”. 2009. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998. Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. Buckingham, Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press.
  • Bauman, Zygmunt. 2007. Liquid Life. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Dean, Mitchell. 1999. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage Publications.
  • Foucault, M. 1991. “Governmentality.” In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, 87–104. London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf.
  • Foucault, Michel, Paul Rabinow, and Robert Hurley. 1997. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. New York: New Press.
  • Foucault, Michel and Paul Rabinow, ed. 1997. Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. London: Penguin.
  • Foucault, Michel. 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–79. Basingstoke [England], New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Freeman, Carla. 2000. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Gagné, Nana. 2017. “Correcting Capitalism”: Changing Metrics and Meanings of Work Among Japanese Employees. Journal of Contemporary Asia 48: 67–87. doi:10.1080/00472336.2017.1381984.
  • Ganti, Tejaswini. 2014. “Neoliberalism.” Annual Review of Anthropology 43 (1): 89–104. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155528.
  • Gordon, Colin. 1987. “The Soul of the Citizen: Max Weber and Michel Foucault on Rationality and Government.” In Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity, edited by S. Lash and S. Whimster, 293–316. London: Allen and Unwin.
  • Gordon, Colin. 1991. “Governmental Rationality: An Introduction.” In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, edited by Graham Burchell, Gordon, Colin, and Peter Miller, 1–52. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gooptu, N. 2009. “Neoliberal Subjectivity, Enterprise Culture and New Workplaces: Organised Retail and Shopping Malls in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 44 (22): 45–54.
  • Harrell, Stevan. 1985. “Why Do the Chinese Work so Hard?: Reflections on an Entrepreneurial Ethic.” Modern China 11 (2): 203–226. doi:10.1177/009770048501100203.
  • Harrell, Stevan. 2000. “The Changing Meanings of Work in China.” In Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China, edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson, 67–78. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • Henderson, Gail, Barbara Entwisle, Ying Li, Mingliang Yang, Siyuan Xu, and Zhai Fengying. 2000. “Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work: Views on the Meaning of Work (Gongzuo).” In Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China, edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson, 33–50. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • Hindess, Barry. 1996a. Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
  • Hindess, Barry 1996b. “Liberalism, Socialism and Democracy: Variations on a Governmental Theme.” In Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government, edited by A. Barry, T. Osbourne, and N. Rose, 65–80. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hochschild, Arlie Russel. 1989. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Viking.
  • Hochschild, Arlie Russel. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  • Kipnis, Andrew. 2007. “Neoliberalism Reified: Suzhi Discourse and Tropes of Neoliberalism in the People's Republic of China.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (2): 383–400. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00432.x.
  • Kunda, Gideon. 2006. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Liu, Jieyu. 2017. Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work, Gender, Development, and Social Change. SOAS University of London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mann, Susan. 2000. “Work and Household in Chinese Culture: Historical Perspectives.” In Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China, edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson, 15–32. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Ong, Aihwa. 2006. Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Read, Jason. 2009. “A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity.” Foucault Studies 6: 25–36. doi:10.22439/fs.v0i0.2465.
  • Rofel, Lisa. 1999. Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Rose, Nikolas. 1992. “Governing the Enterprising Self.” In The Values of the Enterprise Culture: The Moral Debate, edited by Paul Heelas and Paul Morris, 141–164. London: Routledge.
  • Rose, Nikolas. 1998. Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rose, Nikolas. 1999. Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rose, Nikolas, and Peter Miller. 2008. Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Sennett, Richard. 1998. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in New Capitalism. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company.
  • Upadhya, C. 2016. Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Walder, Andrew George. 1986. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Wolf, Margery. 1972. Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.