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Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt

By Ching Kwan Lee

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780520940642
DOI
10.1525/9780520940642
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
918 kB (940531 bytes)
Pages
340\339
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:34:30

Description

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.

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