1st Edition
How China Works Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace
1. How China Works: Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Workplace Jacob Eyferth 2. Village Industries and the Making of Rural-Urban Difference in Early Twentieth-Century Shanxi Henrietta Harrison 3. Socialist Deskilling: The Struggle over Skills in a Rural Craft Industry, 1949-1965 Jacob Eyferth 4. Commanding Heights Industrialization and Wage Determination in the Chinese Factory, 1950-1957 Mark W. Frazier 5. Industrial Involution: Recruitment and Development within the Railway System Lida Junghans 6. Serving the State, Serving the People: Work in a Post-Socialist Department Store Amy Hanser 7. Capital's Incorporation of Labor Rights and Corporate Codes of Conduct in a Chinese Dormitory Labor Regime Pun Ngai 8. Work, Conformity, and Defiance: Strategies of Resistance and Control in China's Township and Village Enterprises Calvin Chen 9. Labor on the "Floating Native Land": A Case Study of Seafarers on PRC Ocean-Going Ships Minghua Zhao
Biography
Jacob Eyferth is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He is the co-editor of Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture (London: Frank Cass 2003) and author of articles in The China Quarterly and the Journal of Peasant Studies.
