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124640
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2013.
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Comparing ethnographic and interview data in three contrasting production arrangements in a labour-intensive factory in South China, this article argues that while the mobile phone constitutes a new contested terrain on the shop floor and facilitates control and resistance between capital and labour simultaneously, the dynamics of control and resistance is contingent upon the exact arrangements of production. While the management strictly prohibit line operators in the assembly line department from using their mobile phones, they turn a blind eye towards mobile phone use among workers in the hardware department, and mandate mobile workers who are not fixed at work stations in both departments to use mobile phones. Diverse managerial control tactics have generated different patterns of worker resistance. Workers in the assembly line department employ strategies to evade managerial surveillance and continue to use mobile phones at work covertly. They also contest the double standards of mobile phone use displayed by the management. Workers in the hardware department challenge the boundaries of legitimate mobile phone use, and mobile workers use tactics to escape being tracked down by the management via their mobile phones. Mobile phones also facilitate the strategy of resistance through exit among all workers.
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173265
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Although China has implemented a universal two-child policy to increase its low fertility rate, many Chinese couples still hesitate over having a second child. The existing literature focuses on how various factors affect reproductive decision-making in different social contexts, paying less attention to family dynamics and intra-family negotiation in the process of reproductive decision-making. Drawing on qualitative data obtained from 53 urban parents in China, this study enriches the discussion by examining how the decision of whether to have a second child is negotiated among multiple family members. Applying the interpretive perspective, this study analyzes the narratives, actions and tactics of family members with conflicting reproductive preferences and reveals how they shape each other’s reproductive decisions in the dynamic process of intra-family negotiation. It sheds new light on the reproductive politics in urban Chinese families by focusing on how the two-child policy is negotiated and contested at the micro-level and by highlighting the complexity and fluidity of the relational process of reproductive decision-making.
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