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
Subjects: Unemployed -- China.; Unemployment -- China -- Social aspects.; Unemployment -- China -- Political aspects.
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.