Format:
1 online resource (341 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520940642
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism -- 1. Chinese Workers' Contentious Transitionfrom State Socialism -- 2. Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and LegalContract -- Part II Rustbelt: Protests of Desperation -- 3. The Unmaking of Mao's Working Classin the Rustbelt -- 4. Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse -- Part III Sunbelt: Protests against Discrimination -- 5. The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt -- 6. Dagong as a Way of Life -- Part IV Conclusion -- 7. Chinese Labor Politics in Comparative Perspective -- Methodological Appendix:Fieldwork in Two Provinces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520250970
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520250970
Additional Edition:
Print version Against the Law Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Language:
English
