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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032854496
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 Illustrations, black & white; 5 Halftones, black & white; 10 Line drawings, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely. This book is an outstanding resource for educators and students to understand Chinese politics and comparative working-class politics.
MoreLong description:
Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis of the development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose seeks the foundation for all this in three questions: what kind of class is China’s working class?; what are the historical forces and processes that have formed it?; and how does the pattern of class formation help explain the working class’s reactions historically, presently, and even prospectively?
Blecher offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely as well as to comparative labor politics. Combining usefulness, thoroughness, and clarity, The Making of China’s Working Class is an outstanding resource for educators and students, a bookshelf staple to understand Chinese politics and comparative working class politics.
In this bold, original treatise on the variegated fortunes of China's workers over more than a 100-year period, Marc Blecher considers their heterogenous fortunes and their disparate levels of agency by place, gender, skill, and political dauntlessness over time. He draws on a wealth of studies of these laborers and his own interviews, and grounds his analysis in the thinking of E.P. Thompson, Ira Katznelson, Gramsci, Karl Marx, and Michael Burawoy. There is much to chew over in his thoughtful, compassionate account.
Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
1. Revolution: The Making of the Chinese Working Class
2. Radicalism: The Apotheosis of the China's Working Class
3. Structural Reform: The Fall of the China's Working Class
Conclusion: The Making, Apotheosis, and Fall of the China's Working Class
Commentaries
4 Viewing The Making of China’s Working Class
Through a Russian Lens
Stephen Crowley
5 Commentary on The Making of China’s Working Class
Elaine Sio-ieng Hui
6 The Challenge of Building Durable Political Power
Paul Pierson
7 Response: Entrenchment, Hegemony, Russia
Marc Blecher
