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"Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New World plantations, worked in South African mines, and toiled through the construction of the Panama Canal, among many other projects. While most investigations of Chinese workers focus on migrant labor, Chinese Workers of the World explores Chinese labor under colonial regimes within China thorough examination of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, constructed between 1898-1910. The Yunnan railway--a French investment in imperial China during the age of "railroad colonialism"--connected French-colonized Indochina to Chinese markets with a promise of cross-border trade in tin, silk, tea, and opium. However, this ambitious project resulted in fiasco. Thousands of Chinese workers died during the horrid construction process, and costs exceeded original estimates by 74%. Drawing on Chinese, French, and British archival accounts of day-to-day worker struggles and labor conflicts along the railway, Selda Altan argues that long before the Chinese Communist Party defined Chinese workers as the vanguard of a revolutionary movement in the 1920s, the modern figure of the Chinese worker was born in the crosscurrents of empire and nation in the late-nineteenth century. Yunnan railway workers contested the conditions of their employment with the knowledge of a globalizing capitalist market, fundamentally reshaping Chinese ideas of free labor, national sovereignty, and regional leadership in East and Southeast Asia"--

Railroad construction workers --- History. --- China --- France --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Chinese labor. --- Indochina. --- Yunnan. --- class/class struggle. --- colonialism. --- coolies/coolie trade/contract labor. --- malaria. --- nationalist political economy. --- opium. --- railways/railway rights.

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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

Slave trade --- Slaves. --- Slavery. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History. --- History --- Slave trade -- Africa -- History. --- Enslaved persons. --- abolition. --- african slave trade. --- american civil war. --- american south. --- bonded labor. --- bonded soldiers. --- captivity. --- china sea. --- chinese labor. --- convict transportation. --- death. --- east african middle passage. --- forced migration. --- global perspective. --- history of slavery. --- history. --- human cargo. --- indentured servants. --- indian ocean. --- irish labor. --- melanesian labor trade. --- middle passage. --- migration. --- slave traders. --- slavery. --- sulu zone. --- terror. --- torture. --- trafficked women. --- transported convicts. --- voc voyages. --- yellow trade.

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This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment in China from an economics perspective. The main content of this book includes three parts―women’s family responsibilities and women’s labor supply (child care, parent care, and women’s employment), the gender gap in the labor market and society (gender gaps in wages, Communist Party membership, and participation in social activity), and the impacts of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment (the social security system and the educational expansion policy on women’s wages and employment) in China. This book provides academic evidence about these issues based on economics theories and econometric analysis methods using many kinds of long-term Chinese national survey data. This book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies of the gender gap and women’s employment in China during the economic transition period. This book is of interest to various groups such as readers who are interested in the Chinese economy, policymakers, and scholars with econometric analysis backgrounds.

Labour economics --- Central government policies --- History --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Population & demography --- Labor Economics --- Comparative Social Policy --- History, general --- Gender Studies --- Demography --- Women's History / History of Gender --- Population and Demography --- Women’ employment in China --- Economic transition in China --- Chinese labor market --- Child care in China --- Parent care in China --- Gender wage gap --- Gender gap of Communist Party membership --- Public pension in China --- open access --- Central / national / federal government policies --- Historiography --- Labor economics. --- Social policy. --- Women --- Sex. --- Demography. --- Population. --- Labor Economics. --- Comparative Social Policy. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- Gender Studies. --- Population and Demography. --- History. --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Economics --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Malthusianism --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Feminism --- Manners and customs

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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.