Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China
Title | Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China PDF eBook |
Author | P. Leung |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137483504 |
This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
Shanghai on Strike
Title | Shanghai on Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth J. Perry |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780804724913 |
This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically used in Western historiography. China has undergone a series of fundamental political transformations: from the 1911 Revolution that toppled the imperial system to the victory of the communists, all of which were greatly affected by labor unrest. This work places the politics of Chinese workers in comparative perspective and a remarkably comprehensive and nuanced picture of Chinese labor emerges from it, based on a wealth of primary materials. It joins the concerns of 'new labor history' for workers' culture and shopfloor conditions with a more conventional focus on strikes, unions, and political parties. As a result, the author is able to explore the linkage between social protest and state formation.
Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China
Title | Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China PDF eBook |
Author | P. Leung |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781349694662 |
This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
China on Strike
Title | China on Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Zhongjin Li |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2016-05-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608465802 |
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinational companies. Drawing on dozens of interviews with Chinese workers, this book documents the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth.
Against the Law
Title | Against the Law PDF eBook |
Author | Ching Kwan Lee |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2007-06-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520940644 |
This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.
The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class
Title | The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class PDF eBook |
Author | Elly Leung |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9783030833121 |
This book engages with Foucault’s theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault’s genealogical (historicalization) method to explore the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China’s stable political party is sustained through the CCP’s ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers’ consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China for students and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements.
The Labor Movement in China
Title | The Labor Movement in China PDF eBook |
Author | Shih Kan Sheldon Tso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Labor movement |
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