Workers and Change in China - Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Recipes for Resistance; 3. Bureaucratic Incentives; 4. Orthodox Control; 5. Risk-Taking Control; 6. Increased Repressive and Responsive Capacity; 7. Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Change; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; References.

About the author

Manfred Elfstrom is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science, University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Summary

Strikes, protests and riots by Chinese workers are rising. Using interviews and statistics, Elfstrom shows that this unrest is altering governance in China at all levels. However, the result is political development of a profoundly contradictory sort: the state is becoming more responsive and more repressive at the same time.

Foreword

Rising labour unrest is changing Chinese governance from below; Elfstrom shows that this is occurring in unexpected and contradictory ways.

Product details

• Authors: Manfred Elfstrom
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781108926348
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92634-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution