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China On Strike
Narratives of Worker's Resistance
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This book is ideal for readers interested in labour rights, China's economic development, industrial relations, and contemporary social movements. It appeals to academics, activists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human dimension behind global manufacturing.
Through first person accounts, this book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
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China on Strike has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most underreported labour struggles of our time.
China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organising in some of China's most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard and other multinational companies.
Drawing on dozens of interviews with Chinese workers, China on Strike is a first-hand account from Chinese labourers.
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Praised for its vivid case studies and detailed narratives, the book reveals a wide-awake factory proletariat challenging the status quo. Mike Davis, Professor Emeritus, describes it as evidence of a growing labour rebellion. Hsiao-Hung Pai highlights its brilliant storytelling from migrant workers' perspectives, while others commend the rare, eye-opening English-language insights into China's working-class militancy and struggles under political repression.
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ISBN: 9781608465224
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 April 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Contributors:
- Edited by Hao Ren
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 324g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Hao Ren became interested in Chinese labor rights while she was in university, and after graduating went to work for a labor NGO in the Pearl River Delta. After leaving the organization in 2010, she supported herself by taking a variety of jobs in factories throughout coastal China. Continuing with her interest in labor issues, she spent her free time interviewing workers in order to complete this book.
Eli Friedman is Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University. His primary areas of interest are China, development, globalization, social movements, theory, urbanization, and work and labor. He is the author of "Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China", published by Cornell University Press (2014). His peer reviewed articles have appeared in ILR Review, Theory and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Mobilization, among others. He is also a regular contributor to Jacobin.
Zhongjin Li is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her bachelor's degree in International Relations from Renmin University of China and a master's degree in Economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her main research focus is political economy of development, economic crises, and labor politics in Asia.
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