In Taiwan, Small-scale Subcontracting Factories Of Thirty Employees Or Less Make Items For Export, Like The Wooden Jewelry Boxes That Ping-chun Hsiung Made When She Worked In Six Such Factories. These Factories Are Found In Rice Fields And Urban Areas, Front Yards And Living Rooms, Mostly Employing Married Women In Line With The Government Slogan That Promotes Work In The Home-living Rooms As Factories.hsiung Studies The Experiences Of The Married Women Who Work In This Satellite System Of Factories, And How Their Work And Family Lives Have Contributed To Taiwan's 9.1 Percen Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Taiwan's Economic Miracle; 2. Living Rooms As Factories: Women, The State, And Taiwan's Economic Development; 3. The Satellite Factory System From Within; 4. Women, Marriage, And Family In The Satellite Factory System; 5. The Everyday Construction Of An Economic Miracle: Labor Control On The Shop Floor; 6. Are Women Really Petty Minded?: Awareness, Compliance, And Resistance In The Workplace; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index Ping-chun Hsiung. Parallel Title In Chinese Characters. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 161-171) And Index. English