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Book Synopsis Doing Labor Activism in South China by : Darcy Pan
Download or read book Doing Labor Activism in South China written by Darcy Pan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act – or not act – when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the dynamics of state control in post-socialist China since the 1970s, in which rapid economic and social transformations have cultivated an environment of uncertainty. Taking uncertainty as an analytical space, productive of emergent practices and discourses, this book draws on original fieldwork and interviews to study the lived experiences of different actors throughout the labor NGO community, the foreign donors trying to bring about change, and the networks of social relationships being strategically reconfigured. Doing Labor Activism in South China offers an ethnography of the Chinese state that reveals an intimate and complicit modality of self-governing, demonstrating how neoliberal ideas are at once represented by international development and deflected in grassroots development. It will be useful to students and scholars of Social Anthropology and Urban Ethnography, as well as Political Science and Chinese Studies more generally.
Book Synopsis The Labor Movement in China by : Shih Kan Sheldon Tso
Download or read book The Labor Movement in China written by Shih Kan Sheldon Tso and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shanghai on Strike by : Elizabeth J. Perry
Download or read book Shanghai on Strike written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically used in Western historiography. China has undergone a series of fundamental political transformations: from the 1911 Revolution that toppled the imperial system to the victory of the communists, all of which were greatly affected by labor unrest. This work places the politics of Chinese workers in comparative perspective and a remarkably comprehensive and nuanced picture of Chinese labor emerges from it, based on a wealth of primary materials. It joins the concerns of 'new labor history' for workers' culture and shopfloor conditions with a more conventional focus on strikes, unions, and political parties. As a result, the author is able to explore the linkage between social protest and state formation.
Book Synopsis Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China by : P. Leung
Download or read book Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China written by P. Leung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
Book Synopsis The Labor Movement in China by : Ta Chen
Download or read book The Labor Movement in China written by Ta Chen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against the Law written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement by : Daniel Y. K. Kwan
Download or read book Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement written by Daniel Y. K. Kwan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deng Zhongxia, the organizer and leader of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong General Strike of 1925-26, was one of China's foremost labor activists. Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement is the first English-language examination of Deng's career and thought. It extends into a wider assessment of the relationship between the Chinese labor movement and the Chinese Communist revolution, considering the conflicting interests of workers and Marxist intellectuals and the differences between local and national concerns.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Labor Movement by : Nym Wales
Download or read book The Chinese Labor Movement written by Nym Wales and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Politics and Labor Movements by : Jake Lin
Download or read book Chinese Politics and Labor Movements written by Jake Lin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement. Using a psychological and cognitive approach, the author examines workers and activists’ everyday interpretation of the source of their problems, their prospect of labor movements, and their sense of solidarity. The project shows how workers themselves have become a part of the apparatus of state repression and argues that Chinese workers have not acquired sufficient cognitive strength to become the much hoped-for agent for political change, which hinders labor activism from developing into a sustainable social movement. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the monograph provides analysis of Chinese politics, labor studies, international political economy, social movements, and contentious politics.
Book Synopsis The Labor Movement in China by : Shih Kan Sheldon Tso
Download or read book The Labor Movement in China written by Shih Kan Sheldon Tso and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rule Without Law: China's Economic Slowdown and Crackdown on Labor Activism by : Jennifer R. Mayer
Download or read book Rule Without Law: China's Economic Slowdown and Crackdown on Labor Activism written by Jennifer R. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 2015, the Chinese Communist Party arrested scores of labor activists and rights defense lawyers and revoked the licenses of labor NGOs. While many scholars have labeled the attack on the labor movement as a part of the Communist Party's wider crackdown on civil society, the unprecedented crackdown on labor activism coincided precisely with a similarly unprecedented trend: slowing economic growth. Using institutional analysis, I demonstrate why decentralized legal authoritarianism in China is only sustainable in times of economic growth. The regime has targeted labor activists as a means to impede the exercise of center-granted labor rights that imposes high costs on an unstable economy. The conclusion nuances the idea of "GDP/performance-legitimacy" in the context of growing rights consciousness, and reveals how China's authoritarian government will rule in contravention of its own labor laws as a survival strategy if its economy continues to falter.
Book Synopsis The Labor Politics of Market Socialism by : Wai-Ling Jenny Chan
Download or read book The Labor Politics of Market Socialism written by Wai-Ling Jenny Chan and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Labor Politics of Market Socialism: a Collective Action in a Global Workplace in South China" by Wai-ling, Jenny, Chan, 陳慧玲, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled "The Labor Politics of Market Socialism: A Collective Action in a Global Workplace in South China" submitted by CHAN Wai Ling, Jenny for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Sociology at The University of Hong Kong in May 2006 This paper is based on an ethnographic research on labor politics in South China. During the past two decades of rapid market reforms, China has become a "world factory." Some 120 to 200 million mingong, migrant wage-workers of rural household registration, are recomposing the Chinese working class. At the workplace level, how do Chinese migrant workers understand their lived class experiences? How do they realize their shared interests in everyday practices as well as in specific moments of labor struggles? I analyze the emergence and social organization of a collective action in a 3,000-person Hong Kong-invested enterprise in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. A massive dismissal of 600 production workers triggered a protest in March 2003. What resources are available for aggrieved migrant workers to use in their struggle? Existing writings on Chinese migrant workers have mostly emphasized the domination of workers by the state and global capitalism. Specifically, even though the central government has introduced protective labor laws, they have seldom been enforced. In situations of protests, labor laws have even been found to set limits on compensation claims and other outcomes. In addition, workers are subjected to tight managerial control not only on the shop floor, but also within their dormitories. Strict restrictions of their bodily movements, not only at work but also at 'home, ' are seen as a major mechanism for enhancing productivity and reducing worker interactions. Finally, the management has been found to encourage the proliferation of localistic loyalty, which can be used to draw social iiboundaries between the workers and reduce their solidarity. In this study, I argue that all three forces can be double-edged swords. While they serve to restrain and control the workers, they can also be used as mechanisms for launching labor resistance. First, the government's legal reforms have opened up new institutional channels for the workers to legitimize their claims. Second, the workers can readily build solidarity based on pre-existing localistic networks and in some cases transcend them. Third, collective factory dormitories provide a place or socio-cultural space for the workers to articulate their aggregate interests. How are the migrant workers organized? Labor laws, localistic networks, the shop floor as well as dormitories of the factory have provided much-needed organizational resources. I also highlight the crucial role of migrant workers as leaders in the dynamic process of labor organizing. Without the help of trade unions, the workers have to rely on themselves to fight for their rights and dignity. In and through intensive struggle, their working-class identity and consciousness are strengthened and heightened. In sum, my research aims at articulating Chinese migrant workers' discontent and specifying the logic of a particular mode of workplace-based collective action. Labor protests will likely increase in frequency and scale as the market reforms deepen and generate new forms of social inequalities in China.
Book Synopsis Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China by : P. Leung
Download or read book Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China written by P. Leung and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
Book Synopsis The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class by : Elly Leung
Download or read book The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class written by Elly Leung and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with Foucault’s theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault’s genealogical (historicalization) method to explore the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China’s stable political party is sustained through the CCP’s ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers’ consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China for students and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements.
Book Synopsis A New Deal for China’s Workers? by : Cynthia Estlund
Download or read book A New Deal for China’s Workers? written by Cynthia Estlund and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
Download or read book Polanyian Trap ? written by Lefeng Lin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on the labor movement and the state in South China from 2007 to 2017. It investigates how liberal officials within state-run trade unions and labor activists in grassroots NGOs experimented with different strategies to open up space for institutionalizing labor unrest. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic research in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, I find that, since the late 2000s, a group of trade union reformers has implemented union elections and collective bargaining in large foreign-invested firms, which created a "technocratic unionism" run by managers, engineers, and technicians. While these elected union leaders employed company information and data analysis to negotiate with employers on wages and benefits, they also exercised managerial authority and technical know-how to constrain workers' demands and participation. At the same time, however, in many small and medium-sized factories left behind by the union reform, grassroots labor NGOs supported factory militants to organize "worker delegation," coached workers to stage collective actions, and pushed local officials and employers to accept worker-led collective bargaining for wages and benefits. Learning from labor NGOs, since 2015, the union reformers have built union-sponsored worker centers. By involving workers in cultural, educational, and entertainment activities, the union-sponsored worker centers identify and train worker leaders to organize workers into community-based recreational associations, as well as nominate the worker leaders to participate in workplace union elections, thus improving worker representation and social services while preempting NGOs' organizing attempts. In contrast to much scholarship that has focused on Chinese workers' resistance or how the Chinese state represses labor activism, this research demonstrates how reformers and activists employ available institutional resources to create new space for institutionalizing labor unrest. This dissertation also reveals a Polanyian pattern of a countermovement to the market economy, albeit with different dynamics in the ever-changing context of contemporary China. Chinese labor reformers and social actors are working within a legacy of communist authoritarianism and a new transnational advocacy network. The former tried to reform the existent union structures to absorb labor's challenges to capital and the state; the latter made efforts to carve out new spaces and strategies for empowering workers to make the challenges stronger, pushing for the transformation of labor organizations and reshaping collective bargaining institution. Although the organizational patterns and institutional frameworks are still being shaped, with an uncertain end goal, the contestation between state reformers and grassroots activists are reshaping the regulatory framework amid China's integration into the global economy.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China by : Teresa Wright
Download or read book Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China written by Teresa Wright and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from top scholars and emerging stars in the field, the Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China captures the complexity of protest and dissent in contemporary China, while simultaneously exploring a number of unifying themes. Examining how, when, and why individuals and groups have engaged in contentious acts, and how the targets of their complaints have responded, the volume sheds light on the stability of China’s existing political system, and its likely future trajectory.
