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.
Shanghai on Strike
Title | Shanghai on Strike PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth J. Perry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9780804766531 |
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.
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.
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.
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
Title | Challenging the Mandate of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth J. Perry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2015-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317475135 |
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back to the third century B.C. This book, by bringing together studies of protest that span the imperial, Republican, and Communist eras, introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from Western cases.
The Significance of the Shanghai General Strike to the Labor Movement of China
Title | The Significance of the Shanghai General Strike to the Labor Movement of China PDF eBook |
Author | Myrtle Hosang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1928 |
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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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