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FAMILIAL HEGEMONY:

Gender and Production Politics on Hong Kong's Electronics Shopfloor

University of California at Berkeley Chinese University of Hong Kong

Drawing on Burawoy's framework of "factory regimes" and concepts of power and practice from Foucault and de Certeau, this article depicts a production regime of "familial hegemony" found in a Hong Kong electronics factory. It suggests that the social construction of gender has to be inserted into a theory of production politics if the specific forms and processes of this hegemonic regime are to be explained. In this particular case, ethnographic data capture how an everyday culture of familialism, built around notions of gender norms and behavior, is actively constructed by management and workers to serve their respective interests on the shopfloor.

Gender & Society, Vol. 7, No. 4, 529-547 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/089124393007004004


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