In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class.
About the author
Eli Friedman is assistant professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 250 ● ISBN 9781608469109 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Publisher Haymarket Books ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6183978 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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