1st Edition
Workers' Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism
By Stephen E. Philion
Copyright 2009
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by privatization oriented policies in China today. By the 1990s, this discourse was being deployed by... Read more
1. Locating a Discourse in Transition 2. The Origins of China’s Discourse of Workers’ Democracy 3. China’s Post-Mao Political Economy in Transition 4. The Discourse of Workers Democracy and Economic Restructuring in Post-Mao China: The 1980s 5. The 1990s: Chinese Privatization and Reframed Discourses of Workers’ Democracy 6. Workers’ Democracy versus Fraudulent Privatizations 7. Conclusion: A Future Discourse of Workers Democracy in China?
Biography
Stephen E. Philion is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University.
