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Against the law : labor protests in China's rustbelt and sunbelt / Ching Kwan Lee.
LIBRA HD8739.G828 L44 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Ching Kwan
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Working class.
- Working class--China--Liaoning Sheng.
- Demonstrations--China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Demonstrations.
- Demonstrations--China--Liaoning Sheng.
- China--Liaoning Sheng.
- China--Guangdong Sheng.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part I Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism
- 1 Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism 3
- 2 Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract 34
- Part II Rustbelt: Protests of Desperation
- 3 The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt 69
- 4 Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse 123
- Part III Sunbelt: Protests Against Discrimination
- 5 The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt 157
- 6 Dagong as a Way of Life 204
- 7 Chinese Labor Politics in Comparative Perspective 235
- Methodological Appendix: Fieldwork in Two Provinces 263.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520250970
- 0520250974
- 9780520232228
- 0520232224
- OCLC:
- 70676500
- Online:
- Publisher description
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