ANR Eurasemploi workshop on the Chinese contemporary textile industry. Perspectives from History and sociology

Wednesday February 13th 2019

 

Eurasemploi workshop on the Chinese contemporary textile industry. Perspectives from History and sociology

 

Location : Room M19, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rue A. Einstein, 75013 Paris

 

Morning – Studying the textile industry: exploring a comparative perspective

Chairman :Bernard Thomann (Inalco, Paris)

 

9: 15 General introduction: Gilles Guiheux (Univ. Paris Diderot)

 

9:30 – 10:30 Eric Florence, Liège Université and CEFC Kong Kong)

“Textile workers in Guangdong”

 

10:30-11:30

Odile Macchi (EHESS, Paris), “Textile workers in France in the 1960s and 1970s”

 

11:30-12:30

Kun Kajima (Yokohama University and LSE, London)

“The long-term development of Chinese textile industry across the institutional change in 1978”

 

Afternoon- Chinese textile workers : case studies

Chairwoman : Odile Macchi (EHESS, Paris)

 

14:00-15:00 Fan Lulu (South China University of Technology, Guangzhou)

“The Self-Organization and the Power of Female Informal Workers: A Case Study of the Cooperative Production Team in the Garment Industry in the Yangtze River Delta”

 

15:00- 16:00 Xue Hong (East China Normal University, Shanghai)

“The Missing Link between Industry Upgrading and Social Upgrading: the Lessons from a China’s Garment Cluster in Jiangsu”

 

16:00-17:00 Gilles Guiheux (Université Paris Diderot)

“A survey on textile workers in Jiaxing, Zhejiang”

 

 

Funded by the ANR Eurasemploi

 

 

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