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After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond the image of workers toiling under appalling sweatshop conditions for extremely low wages. Working in China introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers

Labor --- Working class --- Travail --- Travailleurs --- S10/0330 --- S11/0534 --- S11/1080 --- S11/0730 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Employment --- China: Social sciences--Class studies --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- China: Social sciences--Women: since 1949 --- Labor supply --- Employees --- China --- Economic conditions --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Since 1949 --- unit --- chinese --- engineer --- karaoke --- bars --- insurance --- sales --- agents --- sex --- workers

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This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

Working class --- Demonstrations --- Travailleurs --- Manifestations --- S11/0830 --- S10/0330 --- China: Social sciences--Labour conditions and trade unions: since 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Employment --- Demonstrations. --- Demonstrations - China - Guangdong Sheng. --- Demonstrations - China - Liaoning Sheng. --- Working class - China - Guangdong Sheng. --- Working class - China - Liaoning Sheng. --- Working class. --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Marches (Demonstrations) --- Political demonstrations --- Political marches --- Political rallies --- Public demonstrations --- Rallies (Demonstrations) --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment --- Collective behavior --- Crowds --- Public meetings --- Riots --- Social classes --- Labor --- E-books --- Working class - China - Guangdong Sheng --- Working class - China - Liaoning Sheng --- Demonstrations - China - Guangdong Sheng --- Demonstrations - China - Liaoning Sheng --- 20th century chinese history. --- 21st century chinese history. --- asian politics. --- capitalism. --- china. --- chinese apparel. --- chinese household appliances. --- chinese labor politics. --- chinese machinery. --- chinese manufacturing. --- chinese politics. --- chinese rustbelt. --- chinese sunbelt. --- chinese textile. --- dagong. --- danwei. --- ethnography. --- factory workers. --- factory. --- global sweatshops. --- historical. --- labor politics. --- labor struggle. --- labor unrest. --- legal authoritarianism. --- legal system. --- politics. --- revolution. --- socialism. --- state socialism. --- working class.

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How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms - economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination - around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force.

Hong Kong (China) --- China --- Relations --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- Politics & government --- China studies --- Chinese politics and society --- Chinese history --- global studies. --- International relations.

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Based on extensive field research, this book examines the lived experiences of Chinese labour in a wide range of occupations and settings, highlighting the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese work place today.

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