Poverty and Pacification - The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class

This groundbreaking book explores China's Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program, which was extended in the hopes of quieting the protests of millions of laid-off workers. Solinger replays the duet that unfolded between the state and the ranks of the proletariat and documents the progressively more silent drama as workers have struggled to survive.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figure
Preface
SECTION I: BACKGROUND
1 Three Shifts in State Mission
2 Urban Poverty and Its Paltry Palliatives
3 The Dibao and the Dibaohu
SECTION II: EXPERIENCES OF LAYOFF AND DIBAO
4 Xiagang: From Master to Mendicant
5 Dibao: Management and Missteps
6 Dibao: Survival and Perspectives
SECTION III: COMPARISONS AND VARIATIONS
7 "Social Assistance?": A Comparative Perspective
8 Dibao: Differential Disbursement
SECTION IV: HARSH CHANGES
9 Policy Manipulations
10 Denouement: Drastic Cut in the Dibao Rolls-
Did Pensions Replace the Dibao?
Conclusion
Glossary
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Dorothy J. Solinger is professor emerita of political science at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Chinese Business under Socialism; State's Gains, Labor's Losses; Contesting Citizenship in Urban China; and Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy J. Solinger, Solinger Dorothy J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2023
• EAN: 9781538188132
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8813-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Asian History