The Contradictions of Market Socialism

Labour, Capital and Welfare in Privatising China and Vietnam

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7922-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Minh T. N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Jingyu Mao is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
Co-Autor	Ngai Pun, Nguyen Duc Loc, Tao Liu, Ngoc Minh Luong, Do Ta Khanh
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-4473-7922-5 / 1447379225
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7922-5 / 9781447379225
Zustand	Neuware