TY - BOOK T1 - The Chinese Worker After Socialism Y1 - 2012 A1 - Hurst, W. KW - China KW - labor KW - reemployment KW - social dislocation KW - socialism KW - unemployment KW - workers AB -

This book was first published in 2009. While millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, this fascinating study considers the fate of one such group - 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred, how workers are coping with unemployment, what actions the state is taking to provide them with livelihoods and re-employment, and what happens when workers mobilize collectively to pursue redress of their substantial grievances. What happens to these people, the remnants of the socialist working class, will be critical in shaping post-socialist politics and society in China and beyond. (publisher's statement)

PB - Cambridge University Press CY - New York L2 - eng ER -