Laid-off workers in a workers' state: unemployment with Chinese characteristics
Thomas B. Gold, WILLIAM J. HURST, JAEYOUN WON, AND LI QIANG
Communist parties lead revolutions in the name of the industrial proletariat. But in the course of China’s post-Mao reforms, perhaps no class has experienced downward mobility as steep as the working class. An estimated 30 million of state enterprise workers have experienced xiagang (laying-off), a stop-gap measure short of full unemployment, leaving them in a sort of limbo without the technical or psychological skills to adjust successfully to China’s new marketized, privatized, and globalized economy. In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.
년:
2009
출판사:
Palgrave Macmillan
언어:
english
페이지:
272
ISBN 10:
0230613705
ISBN 13:
9780230613706
파일:
PDF, 1.53 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009