By Jacob Eyferth

Spanning the complete of the 20 th century, How China Works examines the labour concerns surrounding the place of work in China in either the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international staff of individuals deal with China's twentieth-century revolution as an business revolution, stressing that China's contemporary emergence because the new workshop of the realm used to be a steady switch, and never a contemporary phenomena led by way of exterior forces.


Providing the reader with vast ethnographic learn on subject matters resembling tradition and neighborhood within the place of work, the rural-urban divide, industrialization, subcontracting and employment practices, How China Works fairly does floor the research of chinese language paintings within the day-by-day interactions within the place of work, the labour approach and the micropolitics of labor.

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