Chinese white-collar employees
In his article, Duthie (2005) tries to layout a deeper understanding of the white-collar with Chinese characteristics as a social identity which was born out of global capitalism but innately joined together with national and also local contexts. Duthie states that “social meanings linked to white-collar employees and the attributes they accept are concurrently an outcome of world capitalist history, a state-guided market transformation practice and the agency of white-collar workers.”
The article also provides a historical picture of how the Asian economic crisis resulted to the promotion of women in the multinational companies which also made the local culture believe that women performed better than men in the study of foreign languages. The patterns of foreign investments also resulted in large populations of white-collar employees in urban areas like Shanghai, Wuhan, Hong Kong and Quanzhou.
Most of the Chinese citizens believe that they are taking china to the next level through white-collar employees linking their work at foreign corporates.
From the article, Duthi (2005) depicts what is known as the global glass ceiling in the administrative hierarchy. The global glass ceiling is mostly connected to the geopolitical and economic hierarchy levels in the capitalism world. Additionally, the Chinese white-collar employees have influenced social orientations in their environments nationally and also globally. This is vividly shown as the article describe how the white-collar workers, mainly women, have exchanged the background setting through choosing who to marry due to their advance career positions.
In this article, Duthie (2005) has tried to play a neutral ground by conducting his analysis from the centre of the global hierarchy to help show different ways in which the connection of different types of production have formed diverse and also exclusive social personalities.
Through this example of Chinese white-collar employees, the article has helped to portray how global capitalism has managed to create a healthy and more comprehensive unity that is also diverse.