Laid-off workers in a workers' state : unemployment with Chinese characteristics / edited by Thomas B. Gold [and others].

Other author Gold, Thomas B.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents Introduction / William J. Hurst, Thomas B. Gold, and Jaeyoun Won -- Broadening the debate on xiagang : policy origins and parallels in history / Lei Guang -- Xiagang and the geometry of urban political patronage in China : celebrated state (once-) workers and state chagrin / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Class formation or fragmentation? Allegiances and divisions among managers and workers in state-owned enterprises / Kun-Chin Lin -- Voices of xiagang : naming, blaming, and framing / Eva P.W. Hung and Stephen W.K. Chiu -- The power of the past : nostalgia and popular discontent in contemporary China / William J. Hurst -- China's older workers : between law and policy, between laid off and unemployed / Mary E. Gallagher -- The professional reintegration of the "xiagang" / Li Peilin and Zhang Yi -- Farewell to socialist labor in China / Jaeyoun Won -- State policies and Chinese laid-off workers' limited resistance / Yongshun Cai -- The reemergence of street protests : state workers challenge the Chinese state / Antoine Kernen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008049760
ISBN0230613705
ISBN9780230613706

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Joyner General Stacks HD 5830.A6 L342 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold