ORCID Profile
0000-0002-6348-9320
Current Organisations
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Hong Kong Baptist University
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Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-06-2022
DOI: 10.1177/08969205221097907
Abstract: Mechanisms to control Hong Kong’s young workers are embedded in inadequate labour protections within the government’s social welfare system and in prevalent informalization workplace practices. This article maintains that these control mechanisms have their origins in Hong Kong’s colonial era. Following Harvey, we argue that these control mechanisms are expressions of contradictions of capital in production and reproduction spheres. We identify the foundational and moving contradictions of capital expressed in Hong Kong’s lack of social welfare and employment protections, commodification of education, speculation in the housing market, patterns of work casualization and technology-induced labour-saving strategies, leading to precarity and everyday distress among young workers. New control mechanisms and contradictions of capital notwithstanding, this article highlights experiments to create spaces of resistance by Hong Kong’s young working classes in the hope of resisting the increasing degradation of their everyday living standards.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-07-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JOSI.12468
Abstract: We interviewed Vietnamese and Chinese technical intern trainees who went to Japan under Japan's Technical Intern Training Program (TITP). We showed how Vietnam's and China's temporary labor‐export institutional arrangements differed, and contributed to the two countries’ intern trainees having varied migration experiences and outcomes. We also explored the reasons TITP failed to achieve its stated objective—international skill transfer. Guided by human capital theory, we attempt to make sense of the different migration expectations and experiences of Vietnamese and Chinese trainees under different institutional arrangements and contribute to the debate of temporary labor migration and international skill transfer. We argue that the government of a temporary migrant labor‐sending country must exercise sufficiently good socio‐technical infrastructural governance to steward labor‐export policy and industrial policy to match national development goals in order to make international skill transfer possible.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 31-08-2015
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCV071
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-10-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-09-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-05-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Location: Hong Kong
Location: Australia
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