“The China Beat”, Where to Begin: New Perspectives on Chinese Labor by Mark W. Frazier, offers a long post about what’s taking place in China’s labor movement.
Frazier says, “It is clear that migrant workers have gained a level of organizational sophistication and political awareness to make demands for higher wages, better working conditions, and in some cases, elections for union representatives.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctE6e5keVbU
There are several books mentioned in the post.
Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching Kwan Lee.
The Chinese Worker after Socialism by William Hurst
The China Price by Alexander Harney
Some Assembly Required by Calvin Chen
State’s Gains, Labor’s Losses by Dorothy Solinger
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MubDxOGnzrE
The changes started with the land reforms under Mao, continued with Deng Xiaoping when he said, “Getting Rich is Glorious” introducing capitalism to China, then the growth of an urban middle class, and now capitalist exploitation of the worker while China’s Sexual Revolution is going strong.
However, what if the labor protests in China are from job losses caused by the global economic crises. People are angry. After all, millions have lost jobs already.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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