Proletarian China : a century of Chinese labour / edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franceschini, Ivan, editor.

Sorace, Christian P., 1981- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--China--History.

Labor.

Working class--China--History.

Working class.

Communism--China--History.

Communism.

Politics and government.

Zhongguo gong chan dang.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

879 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2022.

Summary:

"A collection of essays by various historians attempting to reassess and revive ideals that once powered revolutionary China and have since become mired in the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1898 `A Cheaper Machine for the Work' / Corey Byrnes

1902 Techno-Utopias and Robots in China's Past Futures / Craig A. Smith

1915 An Extraordinary Journey: Chinese Labourers on the Western Front during the Great War / Xu Guoqi

1920 A Day Trip to Changxindian / Deng Zhongxia

1921 Setting Sail: The Foundation of the Chinese Communist Party / Lin Chun

1922 The Anyuan Strike of 1922: Lessons in Leadership / Elizabeth J. Perry

1923 The 7 February Massacre / Luo Zhanglong

1925 From the May Thirtieth Movement to the Canton-Hong Kong Strike / Apo Leong

1925 Everyday Politics inTianjin Factories / Gail Hershatter

1925 The Founding of the All-China Federation ofTrade Unions / Wang Kan

1927 The Third Armed Uprising and the Shanghai Massacre / Sa Smith

1927 Organising Rural Society: Disintegrating Rural Governance, Peasant Associations, and the Hailufeng Soviet / Alexander F. Day

1928 Feminist Agitation inside Chinese Factories / Yige Dong

1929 Striking for Rice: The Struggle for the `Rice Allowance' in Republican China / Seung-Joon Lee

1938 Resurgence of Labour Activism in Prewar Hong Kong / Lu Yan

1941 The New China Daily and the Moral Language of Class in Wartime Chongqing / Joshua H. Howard

1942 The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China's First Labour Hero / Bo Arenlund Sørensen

1946 Production in Revolution: Agricultural and Political Labour during Land Reform / Brian Demare

1948 Women Workers and the Shanghai Cotton Mill Strike of 1948 / Emily Honig

1949 On the People's Democratic Dictatorship (Excerpt) / Mao Zedong

1949 Continuity and Change: Women Workers in the Early People's Republic of China / Robert Cliver

1949 A Spark Extinguished: Worker Militancy in Taiwan after World War II (1945-1950) / Po-Chien Chen Andyi-Hung Liu

1951 Li Lisan on the Relationship between Management and Unions / Li Lisan

1951 Revolutionising the Factory through the Mass Political Campaign / Jake Werner

1952 Housing the New Socialist Worken The `Workers' New Village' in Shanghai / Markw Frazier

1952 The First Patriotic Locust Extermination Campaign: Rural Labour Mobilisation and Pest Control in the Early People's Republic of China / John Williams

1955 The Short-Lived Eternity of Friendship: Chinese Workers in Socialist Mongolia (1955-1964) / Ruiyi Zhu

1957 How Do Unions Handle Contradictions among the People? / Lai Ruoyu

Confronting the State: The Strike Wave of 1957 / Chen Feng

1958 Beyond the Wage: Zhang Chunqiao, Bourgeois Right, and Maoism as Theory / Benjamin Kindler

1958 Reorganising Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System / Jane Hayward

1960 Workers' Peril in the Workers' State: The Laobaidong Colliery Disaster / Tim Wright

1960 The Angang Constitution: Labour, Industry and Bureaucracy during the Great Leap Forward / Koji Hirata

1960 Production First, Life Second: The 1960 Ban on Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving / Jacob Eyferth

1961 Anatomy of a Woman Worker: Collectivisation and Labour during the Great Leap Forward / Fabio Lanza

1962 Working Together in Agricultural Production Teams: The Work Lives of the Majority of Chinese Under Mao / Jonathan Unger

1963 Gods, Ghosts, and Workers:'Feudal Superstition' and the Socialist Education Movement, 1963-1966 / Sa Smith

1964 Learning from the Daqing Oilfields / Maggie Clinton

1964 The Third Front Campaign / Covell F. Meyskens

1967 The January Storm of 1967: From Representation to Action and Back Again / Patricia M. Thornton

1967 The Hong Kong Riots of 1967 / Ray Yep

1968 The Establishment of the First Workers' University / Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi

1969 `Oppose Restoring the Old!': The Culmination of the Rebel Workers' Movement in Wuhan during the Cultural Revolution / Joel Andreas

1970 Building Uhuru: Chinese Workers and Labour Diplomacy on the Tan-Zam Railway / Matthew Galway

1972 Transforming Urban Youth into Peasants: The Maoist Rustication Movement of the 1960s-1970s / Michel Bonnin

1976 The Blank Exam: Crises of Student Labour and Activism in the Late Cultural Revolution Film Juelie / A.C. Baecker

1980 Echoes of the Rise of Solidarity in Poland / Jeanne L. Wilson

1981 Abandoning Collective Farming and the Effects on Labour / Jonathan Unger

1983 Dagongmei: Gendered Troubles in the City of Dreams / Mary Ann O'Donnell

1986 Sex Workers in China: From Criminalisation and Abuse to Activism / Tiantian Zheng

1988 The Lifting of Martial Law and the Rise of Taiwan's Independent Labour Movement / Ming-Sho Ho

1989 Workers on Tiananmen Square / Yueran Zhang

1993 Voices from the Zhili Fire: The Tragedy of a Toy Factory and the Conditions It Exposed / Anita Chan

1994 One Law to Rule Them AILThe First Labour Law of the People's Republic of China / Sarah Biddulph

1995 From Green Shoots to Crushed Petals: Labour NGOs in China / Jude Howell

1995 The Blocked Path: Political Labour Organising in the Aftermath of the Tiananmen Crackdown / Kevin Lin

1997 Xiagang: The Fifteenth Party Congress and Mass Layoffs in State-Owned Enterprises / William Hurst

2001 China Joins the World Trade Organization: Implications for Workers / Dorothy J. Solinger

2002 The Liaoyang Strike and the Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in China's Rustbelt / Ching Kwan Lee

2003 The Sun Zhigang Case / Chloe Froissart

2007 Slaving Away: The `Black Brick Kilns Incident' of 2007 / Ivan Franceschini

2008 The Labour Contract Law and Its Discontents / Mary E. Gallagher

2008 `Make Contributions and Offer Your Youth for Tomorrow's Dream': The Establishment of the Shenzhen Migrant Worker Museum / Junxi Qian

2009 Zhang Haichao's `Open-Chest Case' / Yanping Ni

2010 The Nanhai Honda Strike / Elaine Sio-Ieng Hui

2010 The Foxconn Suicide Express / Jenny Chan

2011 Rupture at the Centre: Evicting Migrant Schools in Beijing / Eli Friedman

2013 Chinese Workers on the Belt and Road / Aaron Halegua

2014 Bearing Witness to History: Dagong Poets from the 1980s to the Present / Wanning Sun

2014 The Yue Yuen Strike / Marc Blecher

2015 Replacing Humans with Machines / Huang Yu

2015 Labour NGOs under Assault / Ivan Franceschini

2018 The Jasic Struggle / Manfred Elfstrom

2018 Factories of Turkic Muslim Internment / Darren Byler

2019 The Birth of a New Trade Union Movement in Hong Kong / Anita Chan

The Future Folding Time: Futuristic Reflections on Class Divisions in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas

The Affective Fallacy / Chen Qiufan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Proletarian China

ISBN:

9781839766336

1839766336

OCLC:

1246284528

Publisher Number:

99991057153