The (re)making of the Chinese working class : labor activism and passivity in China / / Elly Leung

• Autore: Leung Elly
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 pages)
• Disciplina: 322.20951
• Soggetto topico: Working class - China; Working class - Political activity - China; Labor movement - China
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Controversy and Debate -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Debates on Workers' Consciousness Development in China -- The Marxian Theories on Worker Consciousness and Organized Labor Movement -- The Memories of Past Experiences and the Continuity of Class Consciousness -- Brutal Experiences, Kinships, and Class Consciousness Development -- Problems with the Working-Class Consciousness and Actions in China -- Counter-Narratives -- Exploring the Work and Non-Work Lives of Workers in China -- Recruitment of Everyday Workers in China -- Multiple Field Locations in China -- Worker Samples -- From 'Class' Power to Power-Knowledge Relations -- Organization of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 The (Re-) Making of a Docile Working Class in China -- Power/Knowledge and Governmentality -- Genealogy and the Resistance -- Confucian (Li) Rules: A Genealogy of the Chinese Workers -- The "Demise" of Confucianism Under Mao Zedong -- The Making of a Chinese Working Class -- The Chinese History of the Present -- The Discourse of Weiwen 維穩, Xiaokang 小康 and Hexie Shehui 和 社會 -- Thought Work in Post-Mao Period -- Chinese Habits of Making Docile Bodies and Minds Within Social Hierarchy -- The Destiny (Ming 命) of Low-Quality (or Low-Educated) Workers in the Chinese Occupational Hierarchy -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 3 Automatic Docility in Market Socialism -- The Desire to Escape Poverty (Tuopin ) -- A Sense of Self-Marginalization -- The Practice of 'Voluntary' Submission -- Forced Labor, Wage Flexibility, and Overtime Work -- The Destiny of 'Low-Quality' Workers -- 'Positive' Punishments and Doctrine of Similarity -- The Disciplinary Techniques of Normalization -- 'Normalizing' the 'True-Selves' -- The 'Selves' and the Everyday 'Carceral Network'. ; Self-Control and Others at the Lowest Level -- The Other as Self-Responsibility -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 4 "Beyond" the Selves and Reflective Docility -- The Tears of Yayi 壓抑 -- Yayi-Based Protest Actions -- Cultural Activities and Yayi-Based Solidarity -- Nationalistic Sentiments and the 'Truth' of Yayi Lives -- Counter-Hegemonic Discourse and Alternative 'Truth' -- 'Automatic' Self-Devaluation -- The Struggle for a United 'Voice' -- The Attacks on Workers -- Externalizing the Worker Struggle in the 'Carceral Network' -- Strengthening Worker Passivity -- Self-Value and the Norm-Based Moralities -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 5 Conclusion -- The (Re-) Making of a Chinese Working Class Over the Past Decades -- Discussing Research Propositions -- Discussing Research Questions -- Activism and Governmentality in China's Thought Management System -- Pro-Democracy Movements in Hong Kong -- Bibliography.
• Titolo autorizzato: The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class
• ISBN: 3-030-83313-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502632903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave debates in business history.