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The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat: The politics of xiagang.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat: The politics of xiagang./
Author:	Hurst, William James.
Description:	315 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 1074.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-03A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3210628
ISBN:	0542597950

The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat: The politics of xiagang.
Hurst, William James.

The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat: The politics of xiagang. - 315 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 1074.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

As the manager of a state-owned auto parts plant said, "the whole phenomenon of xiagang [state sector lay-offs] is like boiling a fish. If you drop it directly into...boiling water, it will fight to the death...but if you put it in...cold water and gradually turn up the heat, the fish just sits there quietly...and...dies. This is what the state has been doing to China's...proletariat for the past 10 years". Another manager called lay-offs China's "most important human rights problem today".

ISBN: 0542597950Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat: The politics of xiagang.
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520 $a As the manager of a state-owned auto parts plant said, "the whole phenomenon of xiagang [state sector lay-offs] is like boiling a fish. If you drop it directly into...boiling water, it will fight to the death...but if you put it in...cold water and gradually turn up the heat, the fish just sits there quietly...and...dies. This is what the state has been doing to China's...proletariat for the past 10 years". Another manager called lay-offs China's "most important human rights problem today".
520 $a Based on 12 months of field research in 9 Chinese cities and over 100 in-depth interviews, I examine the following aspects of this pressing issue in Chinese politics and society: (1) how and why state sector lay-offs have occurred; (2) what responses the state has taken and how they have succeeded or failed in providing for workers' livelihoods and promoting re-employment; (3) the methods workers use to cope with their unemployment and their informal strategies for re-employment; (4) patterns of workers' contention in response to being laid-off; and (5) the dynamics of China's shifting class coalition and the relationship between the working class and the polity.
520 $a Understanding one of the most sweeping and disruptive processes of Chinese reform lets us see more clearly both how this restructuring is taking place on the ground and how insights from the China case illuminate seemingly far-flung debates in the wider field. Explaining why lay-offs have occurred reorients the debate between "shock therapy" and gradualist approaches to the political economy of postsocialist transition. Determining how policies to assist laid-off workers were implemented on the ground promotes the refinement of key ideas about policy implementation and differential policy effects. Uncovering informal coping mechanisms and pathways to re-employment forces a rethinking of several aspects of "informalization" and arguments about social networks. Explaining laid-off workers' contention forces the refinement of a number of aspects of theory on social movements and contentious politics. Finally, looking at the evolving class structure of Chinese society makes us reconsider what is meant by concepts of class membership and class formation in both the socialist past and messy post-socialist present.
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