Cover

Occupational health and social estrangement in China

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Series editor’s foreword

Maps

Part I Life in perspective

1 Facts, theoretical gaze, and journeys

2 Sick workers as homines sacri

Part II Responses to marginality

3 Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick role status

4 Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance

5 Sick coal miners: the compromising citizenry

Part III Sick life governed

6 Law as a technique of Chinese governmentality

7 Conclusion: the future of Chinese marginality

Appendix

References

Index