Title: Proletarian power
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Working class, Political activity, History, Shanghai (china), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Monetary unions
Places: China, Shanghai
Time periods: Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, 20th century
LC classification: HD8738 .P47 1997