Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Lee, Ching Kwan

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520250970)

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Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Lee, Ching Kwan

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

$34.95
Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Lee, Ching Kwan

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Ching Kwan Lee
ISBN-10: 0520250974
ISBN-13: 9780520250970
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2007
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 6.05h x 8.90w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
London Review of Books 01/28/2010 pg. 3
By Ching Kwan Lee
By Ching Kwan Lee
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Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (UC Press) and editor of Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation and Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Contemporary China (with Guobin Yang).

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