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Life cycle, labour remuneration, and gender inequality in a Chinese agrarian collective
Journal of peasant studies • 32 (2) • Published In 2005 • Pages: 277-303
By: Li, Huaiyin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the persistence of patriarchy under communism. Based on household registers and records of work assignments and remuneration, the author calculates the difference in earnings between men and women in a production brigade in central China. The analysis shows that women earn less than men over the course of a lifetime of work because they are assigned lighter, less-remunerated work; have higher levels of absences due to child rearing and domestic work; and retire ten years earlier than men. Work points based on piecework showed that women worked as hard as and earned more than men. Unfortunately, piecework was disallowed during the Cultural Revolution.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Wages and salaries
- Labor and leisure
- Age stratification
- Gender status
- Household
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Qin village, Dongtai county, Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Huaiyin Li
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75642680
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs