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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.