The Contradictions of Market Socialism : Labour, Capital and Welfare in Privatising China and Vietnam (Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy)

Nguyen, Minh (EDT)/ Mao, Jingyu (EDT)

Policy Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781447379225

Full Description

Connecting labour and welfare transformations to broader political-economic processes - including land restructuring and financialisation - the book offers an unparalleled comparative perspective on two of the world's most important manufacturing hubs.

Contents

Introduction: Hyperflexible Accumulation: Labour, Social Reproduction and Market Socialist Contradictions - Minh T. N. Nguyen and Jingyu Mao

Part 1: Reproducing Labour in Hyperflexible Accumulation

1. The broken dream of autonomy: Precarious working conditions in Ho Chi Minh City's platform economy - Nguyen Duc Loc

2. The rise of the gig economy and the social protection of gig workers in China - Tao Liu

3. Flexible accumulation, division of labour, and hierarchisation of care at global factories in Vietnam - Ngoc Luong

4. Producing the flexible working subject: Seasonal bonus, the hyper-flexibilisation of labour and welfare arrangements of migrant factory workers in China - Jingyu Mao and Yueran Tian

Part 2: Rural-Urban Connectivity and New Trajectories of Labour Mobility

5. High-tech, Low Security: Vietnam's Electronics Boom and the Crisis of Reproduction - Do Ta Khanh and Pietro Masina

6. Transforming migrant household reproduction: Commuterisation and land commodification in central China - Yueran Tian

7. Rural Migrants, Housing Politics and the Limits of Care in Shenzhen - Yang Zhan and Ludan Zhang

Part 3: Marketizing Social Provisioning, Degenerating Social Contract

8. Weakening of social protection in Vietnam: Labour legislation, cicada capital, civil society - Angie Ngọc Trần

9. 'Building the giant nests to host the eagle': Housing and family organisation of FDI workers in Ho Chi Minh City - Pham Thanh Thoi

10. From welfare to real estate: A generational perspective of the financialisation of Chinese steelworkers' housing - Catrina Schwendener

11. Collateral deposits, the Bank of the Poor and the caring state: Vietnamese labour migration to Republic of Korea - Huong Thu Nguyen

Part 4: Contestation and Disengagement

12. Early withdrawal of pension and contestations over the right to social protection in Vietnam - Tu Phuong Nguyen

13. The Narratives of Sacrifice: The Third Front and The Left-behind - Fan Zhang