Against the Law Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

Name: Against the Law Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
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ISBN: 9780520250970

ISBN-10: 0520250974

ISBN-13: 9780520250970

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ching Kwan Lee

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the author of Gender and the South China Miracle and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.



Preface



Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism



Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism



Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract



Rustbelt: Protests of Desperation



The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt



Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse



Sunbelt: Protests Against Discrimination



The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt



Dagong as a Way of Life



Conclusion



Chinese Labor Politics in Comparative Perspective


Methodological Appendix: Fieldwork in Two Provinces


Notes


Bibliography


Index