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

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 331.095127 EAN: 9780520250970 ISBN: 0520250974 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 340 Publication Date: 2007-06-07 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Reviews: 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.