PROF Jieyu Liu's Outputs (2)

Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (2007)
Book
Liu, J. (2007). Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964934

I explored the gendered implications of economic reforms by collecting the life histories of older women workers who had been made redundant during the economic restructuring. I examined their experiences in the danwei (work unit) during the pre-ref... Read More about Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation.

Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China (2007)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2007). Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China. Feminist Economics, 13(3-4), 125-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545700701445322

This paper focuses on employment narratives recounted in life history interviews with women workers in Nanjing, China. Drawing on feminist perspectives on gender and global economic changes, it examines the micro-processes that underpinned China's ec... Read More about Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China.