China on strike : narratives of worker's resistance / edited by Hao Ren ; English edition edited by Zhongjin Li and Eli Friedman.
By: Hao Ren.
Contributor(s): Ren, Hao | Li, Zhongjin | Friedman, Eli.
Material type: BookPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, ℗♭2016Description: xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1608465225; 9781608465224.Subject(s): Strikes and lockouts -- China -- Anecdotes | Labor -- ChinaDDC classification: 331.89
Contents:
Summary: "[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.
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.
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 331.89 REN 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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.
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