Chinese Politics and Labor Movements

Authors

Jake Lin, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

8-2020

Abstract

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement. Using a psychological and cognitive approach, the author examines workers and activists’ everyday interpretation of the source of their problems, their prospect of labor movements, and their sense of solidarity. The project shows how workers themselves have become a part of the apparatus of state repression and argues that Chinese workers have not acquired sufficient cognitive strength to become the much hoped-for agent for political change, which hinders labor activism from developing into a sustainable social movement. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the monograph provides analysis of Chinese politics, labor studies, international political economy, social movements, and contentious politics.

Read the chapters freely:

• Introduction: Journey to Resistance: https://rdcu.be/dApfO

• Chinese Politics and the Decline of Labor: https://rdcu.be/dApfU

• From Labor Unrest to Social Movement: https://rdcu.be/dApf2

• Fighting Against What?: https://rdcu.be/dApgd

• The Fate of the Working Class: https://rdcu.be/dApgt

• Fragmented Solidarity: https://rdcu.be/dApgw

• Developing into Obedience?: https://rdcu.be/dApgz

• Conclusion: Compromise or Complicity?: https://rdcu.be/dApgA

Comments

Copyright The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.

Recommended Citation

Lin, Jake. Chinese Politics and Labor Movements. Springer, 2019.

Publication Title

Chinese Politics and Labor Movements

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-23902-2