Proletarian power
Subtitle: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution
By: Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun.
Contributors: Li, Xun.
Series: Transitions--Asia and Asian America
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Working class -- China -- Shanghai -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
Description: This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism.

Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement, convincingly illustrating the complexity of working-class politics in contemporary China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.