Beyond Market Meritocracy
Work and Family Care in Chinese Societies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197767108
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 245x165x25 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the views and practices of employers in varied industries and establishments in Chinese societies, where family care responsibilities are highly appreciated as moral virtues in the traditional culture while market neo-liberalism and modern labor and family welfare systems have taken different hold of different localities and sectors. Through mixed-methods data and the lens of comparative research, the book investigates how employ-ers evaluate and treat male and female employees with various family care responsibilities.
MoreLong description:
Beyond Market Meritocracy investigates how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with varied family care responsibilities in three different labor regimes of Chinese societies - the neo-liberal Hong Kong market under a productivist welfare system, the market-driven private sector of mainland China struggling with the post-COVID-19 economic decline, and the state-supervised public sector of mainland China with socialist legacies. Through extensive and empirical data, it uniquely enriches the existing literature by examining the rationales of employers in the comparisons of different types of family caregivers and non-caregivers and of different labor regimes in China.
While previous studies on family caregivers' dilemmas in the labor market often focus on the incompatibility of family care duties with the capitalist market meritocracy, this book identifies four schemes of rationales among employers in the three labor regimes of China: a market meritocracy of competence, competitiveness, and efficiency; a moral virtuocracy of family care and responsibilities; a cultural schema of gendered division of labor; and structural resources and constraints embedded in labor protection and family welfare policies. The four schemes sometimes corroborate but sometimes contradict one another in different employment contexts, based on which employers construct their evaluations of family caregivers in the labor market.
The multiplicity of employers' rationales demonstrates how their attitudes and practices go beyond merely calculating the market merits of family caregivers, and sheds new light on the complexity in the relationships between workplace organization and labor rights and future directions for work and family policy programs.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Paradoxes, Employers, and Social Policies
2. Work and Family Care in Chinese Societies
3. Research on Three Labor Regimes in Chinese Societies
4. Virtuous Family Caregivers Yet Unwanted Mothers: The Intertwined Caregiver Bonus and Penalty in Hong Kong
5. “Work is Work”: The Caregiver Penalty in Shenzhen's Private Sector
6. Family Care as a Need: Workplace Communities and Their Boundaries in Shenzhen's Public Sector
7. Conclusion: Family Care and Labor Protection in the New Era
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
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