Hao Ren

China on strike : narratives of worker's resistance / edited by Hao Ren ; English edition edited by Zhongjin Li and Eli Friedman. - Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, ℗♭2016. - xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The survival and collective struggles of workers in China's coastal private enterprises since the 1990s -- Part I: Struggles against factory closures -- Part II: Struggles against wage cuts -- Part III: Strikes for wage increases.

"[This work] provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China's most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett-Packard, and other multinational companies. Drawing on dozens of interviews with Chinese workers, [it] documents the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China's explosive growth"--Front flap.

1608465225 9781608465224


Strikes and lockouts--China--Anecdotes.
Labor--China.

HD5430.A6 / C36 2016

331.89

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