| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism -- Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism -- Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract -- Rustbelt: Protest of Desperation -- The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt -- Life After "Danwei": Surviving Enterprise Collapse -- Sunbelt: Protest of Discrimination -- The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt -- "Dagong" As a Way of Life -- Conclusion: China in Comparative Perspectives -- Chinese Labor Politics in Comparative Perspectives. |
| Summary |
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 fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- China -- Guangdong Sheng.
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Working class. |
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China -- Guangdong Sheng. |
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Working class -- China -- Liaoning Sheng.
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China -- Liaoning Sheng. |
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Demonstrations -- China -- Guangdong Sheng.
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Demonstrations. |
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Demonstrations -- China -- Liaoning Sheng.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lee, Ching Kwan. Against the law. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520250970 0520250974 (DLC) 2006021879 (OCoLC)70676500 |
| ISBN |
9780520940642 (electronic book) |
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0520940644 (electronic book) |
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9781429478205 (electronic book) |
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1429478209 (electronic book) |
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9780520250970 |
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0520250974 |
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9780520232228 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520232224 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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