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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810644403321

Autore

Lee Ching Kwan

Titolo

Against the law [[electronic resource] ] : labor protests in China's rustbelt and sunbelt / / Ching Kwan Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-75258-4

9786611752583

0-520-94064-4

1-4337-0831-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Classificazione

85.63

Disciplina

331.0951/27

Soggetti

Working class - China - Guangdong Sheng

Working class - China - Liaoning Sheng

Demonstrations - China - Guangdong Sheng

Demonstrations - China - Liaoning Sheng

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. Decentralized Legal Authoritarianism -- Part 2. Rustbelt Protests of Desperation -- Part 3. Sunbelt Protests against Discrimination -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix: Fieldwork in Two Provinces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.