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Title

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

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Gold, Thomas B.

Description

viii, 261 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Unemployed > China
• Unemployment > Social aspects > China
• Unemployment > Political aspects > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / William J. Hurst, Thomas B. Gold and Jaeyoun Won -- Pt. 1. Class Politics -- 1. Broadening the Debate on Xiagang: Policy Origins and Parallels in History / Lei Guang -- 2. Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Political Patronage in China: Celebrated State (once-) Workers and State Chagrin / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 3. Class Formation or Fragmentation? Allegiances and Divisions among Managers and Workers in State-Owned Enterprises / Kun-Chin Lin -- Pt. 2. Frames and Framing -- 4. Voices of Xiagang: Naming, Blaming, and Framing / Eva P. W. Hung and Stephen W. K. Chiu -- 5. The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and Popular Discontent in Contemporary China / William J. Hurst -- Pt. 3. Workers' Welfare and Reemployment -- 6. China's Older Workers: Between Law and Policy, Between Laid-Off and Unemployed / Mary E. Gallagher -- 7. The Professional Reintegration of the "Xiagang" / Li Peilin and Zhang Yi -- Pt. 4. Explaining the Lack of Contention -- 8. Farewell to Socialist Labor in China / Jaeyoun Won -- 9. State Policies and Chinese Laid-off Workers' Limited Resistance / Yongshun Cai -- 10. The Reemergence of Street Protests: State Workers Challenge the Chinese State / Antoine Kernen.

ISBN

• 0230613705
• 9780230613706

LCCN

• 2008049760
• 40016595452

OCLC

• ocn244416654
• 244416654
• SCSB-9060571

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries