Against the law : labor protests in China's rustbelt and sunbelt / Ching Kwan Lee.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Part 1. Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism

Part 2. Rustbelt Protests of Desperation

Part 3. Sunbelt Protests against Discrimination

Part 4. Conclusion

Methodological Appendix: Fieldwork in Two Provinces

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611752583

9781281752581

1281752584

9780520940642

0520940644

9781433708312

1433708310

OCLC:

320323716