Laid-off workers in a workers' state
Subtitle: unemployment with Chinese characteristics
By: edited by Thomas B. Gold ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gold, Thomas B.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Unemployed -- China; Unemployment -- China -- Social aspects; Unemployment -- China -- Political aspects
Description: In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William J. Hurst ... [et al.]; title: Broadening the debate on xiagang : peasant workers and xiagang in history / Lei Guang; title: Xiagang and the geometry of urban political patronage in China : celebrated state (once-) workers and state chagrin / Dorothy Solinger; title: Class formation or fragmentation? Allegiances and divisions among managers and workers in state-owned enterprises / Kun-Chin Lin; title: Voices of xiagang : naming, blaming, and framing / Eva P.W. Hung and Stephen W.K. Chiu; title: The power of the past : nostalgia and popular discontent in contemporary China / William J. Hurst; title: China's older workers : between law and policy, between laid off and unemployed / Mary E. Gallagher; title: The professional reintegration of the "xiagang" / Li Peilin and Zhang Yi; title: Farewell to socialist labor in China / Jaeyoun Won; title: State policies and Chinese laid-off workers? Limited resistance / Cai Yongshun; title: The reemergence of street protests : state workers challenge the Chinese state / Antoine Kernen.