Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813321653)

This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these three modes of militancy promoted by different types of leaders with differing agendas and motivations. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement. As they convincingly illustrate, the multiplicity of worker responses to the Cultural Revolution cautions against a one-dimensional portrait of working-class politics in contemporary China.

Author: Elizabeth Perry, Li Xun
ISBN-10: 0813321654
ISBN-13: 9780813321653
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/10/1997
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d