1st Edition
Doing Labor Activism in South China The Complicity of Uncertainty
By Darcy Pan
Copyright 2020
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act – or not act – when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the dynamics of state control in post-socialist China since the 1970s, in which rapid economic and social... Read more
Introduction
1. Locating uncertainty
2. Pragmatic state, precarious labor
3. Uncertainty at Work
4. The Politics of Mingan
5. Intimating Secrecy
6. Collective Action
Conclusion: Laboring Through Uncertainty
Biography
Darcy Pan is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the state, labor, infrastructure, area studies specific to China, technology and urban development. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her most recent work has been published in the Handbook of Dissident and Protest in China (2019).
