Disenfranchised - The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

In Disenfranchised, Joel Andreas recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped industrial relations in China over the past seven decades. Through interviews with workers and managers, Andreas provides a shop-floor perspective of the transformation of hired hands into permanent work unit members, the all-encompassing control of factory party committees, the battles of the Cultural Revolution, and the disenfranchisement of workers through industrial restructuring. Andreas introduces a general theoretical framework to analyze workplace authority relations and closes with an overview of parallel developments around the globe, chronicling the rise and fall of an era of industrial citizenship.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1. China and the era of industrial citizenship


• 2. Enfranchised


• 3. Participatory paternalism


• 4. Mass supervision


• 5. Big democracy


• 6. Revolutionary committees


• 7. Reforming the work unit system


• 8. Disenfranchised


• 9. Lessons and prospects


• Appendices


• Major events


• Chinese terms


• Acronyms


• Interviewees


• Bibliography

About the author

Joel Andreas is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Rise of China's New Class, analyzed the contentious merger of old and new elites following the 1949 Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Andreas, Joel (Associate Professor of Sociology Andreas, Andreas Joel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190052614
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005261-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social issues & processes, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour, Social and ethical issues, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrialisation and industrial history