Drawing on Michael Burawoy's theory of production regimes, this study analyzes the labor process of women migrant workers in the service industry from the gender perspective and examines the internal divisions among ...Drawing on Michael Burawoy's theory of production regimes, this study analyzes the labor process of women migrant workers in the service industry from the gender perspective and examines the internal divisions among women workers in the same restaurant. External socio-cultural identity plays a key role in the workplace behavior of these women workers. He Ji Restaurant management employs the traditional gender constructions of women's ages and the resultant differences in their family roles and social responsibilities to apply different control strategies. These strategies are recognized and echoed by the workers themselves, whence the despotism regime of "older sisters" and hegemony regime of "younger sisters." Keywords: women migrant workers, labor process, service industry展开更多
文摘Drawing on Michael Burawoy's theory of production regimes, this study analyzes the labor process of women migrant workers in the service industry from the gender perspective and examines the internal divisions among women workers in the same restaurant. External socio-cultural identity plays a key role in the workplace behavior of these women workers. He Ji Restaurant management employs the traditional gender constructions of women's ages and the resultant differences in their family roles and social responsibilities to apply different control strategies. These strategies are recognized and echoed by the workers themselves, whence the despotism regime of "older sisters" and hegemony regime of "younger sisters." Keywords: women migrant workers, labor process, service industry