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I. Franceschini – C. Sorace, eds. Proletarian China. A Century of Chinese Labour.

Biblioteca / 2020-2029

Ivan Franceschini – Christian Sorace, eds. Proletarian China. A Century of Chinese Labour.

Nueva York: Verso Books, 2022.

880 páginas.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Proletariat Is Dead, Long Live the Proletariat! / Ivan FRANCESCHINI and Christian SORACE

1898

‘A Cheaper Machine for the Work’ / Corey BYRNES

1902

Techno-Utopias and Robots in China’s Past Futures / Craig A. SMITH

1915

An Extraordinary Journey: Chinese Labourers on the Western Front during the Great War / XU Guoqi

1920

A Day Trip to Changxindian / DENG Zhongxia

1921

Setting Sail: The Foundation of the Chinese Communist Party / LIN Chun

1922

The Anyuan Strike of 1922: Lessons in Leadership / Elizabeth J. PERRY

1923

The 7 February Massacre / LUO Zhanglong

1925

From the May Thirtieth Movement to the Canton–Hong Kong Strike / Apo LEONG

1925

Everyday Politics in Tianjin Factories / Gail HERSHATTER

1925

The Founding of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions / WANG Kan

1927

The Third Armed Uprising and the Shanghai Massacre / S.A. SMITH

1927

Organising Rural Society: Disintegrating Rural Governance, Peasant Associations, and the Hailufeng Soviet / Alexander F. DAY

1928

Feminist Agitation inside Chinese Factories / Yige DONG

1929

Striking for Rice: The Struggle for the ‘Rice Allowance’ in Republican China / Seung-Joon LEE

1938

Resurgence of Labour Activism in Prewar Hong Kong / LU Yan

1941

The New China Daily and the Moral Language of Class in Wartime Chongqing / Joshua H. HOWARD

1942

The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China’s First Labour Hero / Bo Ærenlund SØRENSEN

1946

Production in Revolution: Agricultural and Political Labour during Land Reform / Brian DEMARE

1948

Women Workers and the Shanghai Cotton Mill Strike of 1948 / Emily HONIG

1949

On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship (Excerpt) / MAO Zedong

1949

Continuity and Change: Women Workers in the Early People’s Republic of China / Robert CLIVER

1949

A Spark Extinguished: Worker Militancy in Taiwan after World War II (1945–1950) / Po-chien CHEN and Yi-hung LIU

1951

Li Lisan on the Relationship between Management and Unions / LI Lisan

1951

Revolutionising the Factory through the Mass Political Campaign / Jake WERNER

1952

Housing the New Socialist Worker: The ‘Workers’ New Village’ in Shanghai / Mark W. FRAZIER

1952

The First Patriotic Locust Extermination Campaign: Rural Labour Mobilisation and Pest Control in the Early People’s Republic of China / John WILLIAMS

1955

The Short-Lived Eternity of Friendship: Chinese Workers in Socialist Mongolia (1955–1964) / Christian SORACE and Ruiyi ZHU

1957

How Do Unions Handle Contradictions among the People? / LAI Ruoyu

Confronting the State: The Strike Wave of 1957 / CHEN Feng

1958

Beyond the Wage: Zhang Chunqiao, Bourgeois Right, and Maoism as Theory / Benjamin KINDLER

1958

Reorganising Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System / Jane HAYWARD

1960

Workers’ Peril in the Workers’ State: The Laobaidong Colliery Disaster / Tim WRIGHT

1960

The Angang Constitution: Labour, Industry and Bureaucracy during the Great Leap Forward

Koji HIRATA

1960

Production First, Life Second: The 1960 Ban on Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving / Jacob EYFERTH

1961

Anatomy of a Woman Worker: Collectivisation and Labour during the Great Leap Forward / Aminda SMITH and Fabio LANZA

1962

Working Together in Agricultural Production Teams: The Work Lives of the Majority of Chinese Under Mao / Jonathan UNGER

1963

Gods, Ghosts, and Workers: ‘Feudal Superstition’ and the Socialist Education Movement, 1963–1966 / S.A. SMITH

1964

Learning from the Daqing Oilfields / Maggie CLINTON

1964

The Third Front Campaign / Covell F. MEYSKENS

1967

The January Storm of 1967: From Representation to Action and Back Again / Patricia M. THORNTON

1967

The Hong Kong Riots of 1967 / Ray YEP

1968

The Establishment of the First Workers’ University / Andrea PIAZZAROLI LONGOBARDI

1969

‘Oppose Restoring the Old!’: The Culmination of the Rebel Workers’ Movement in Wuhan during the Cultural Revolution / Joel ANDREAS

1970

Building Uhuru: Chinese Workers and Labour Diplomacy on the Tan–Zam Railway / Matthew GALWAY

1972

Transforming Urban Youth into Peasants: The Maoist Rustication Movement of the 1960s–1970s / Michel BONNIN

1976

The Blank Exam: Crises of Student Labour and Activism in the Late Cultural Revolution Film Juelie / A.C. BAECKER

1980

Echoes of the Rise of Solidarity in Poland / Jeanne L. WILSON

1981

Abandoning Collective Farming and the Effects on Labour / Jonathan UNGER

1983

Dagongmei: Gendered Troubles in the City of Dreams / Mary Ann O’DONNELL

1986

Sex Workers in China: From Criminalisation and Abuse to Activism / Tiantian ZHENG

1988

The Lifting of Martial Law and the Rise of Taiwan’s Independent Labour Movement / Ming-sho HO

1989

Workers on Tiananmen Square / Yueran ZHANG

1993

Voices from the Zhili Fire: The Tragedy of a Toy Factory and the Conditions It Exposed / Anita CHAN

1994

One Law to Rule Them All: The First Labour Law of the People’s Republic of China / Sarah BIDDULPH

1995

From Green Shoots to Crushed Petals: Labour NGOs in China / Jude HOWELL

1995

The Blocked Path: Political Labour Organising in the Aftermath of the Tiananmen Crackdown / Kevin LIN

1997

Xiagang: The Fifteenth Party Congress and Mass Layoffs in State-Owned Enterprises / William HURST

2001

China Joins the World Trade Organization: Implications for Workers / Dorothy J. SOLINGER

2002

The Liaoyang Strike and the Unmaking of Mao’s Working Class in China’s Rustbelt / Ching Kwan LEE

2003

The Sun Zhigang Case / Chloé FROISSART

2007

Slaving Away: The ‘Black Brick Kilns Incident’ of 2007 / Ivan FRANCESCHINI

2008

The Labour Contract Law and Its Discontents / Mary E. GALLAGHER

2008

‘Make Contributions and Offer Your Youth for Tomorrow’s Dream’: The Establishment of the Shenzhen Migrant Worker Museum / Eric FLORENCE and Junxi QIAN

2009

Zhang Haichao’s ‘Open-Chest Case’ / Ralph LITZINGER and Yanping NI

2010

The Nanhai Honda Strike / Chris King-Chi CHAN and Elaine Sio-Ieng HUI

2010

The Foxconn Suicide Express / Jenny CHAN

2011

Rupture at the Centre: Evicting Migrant Schools in Beijing / Eli FRIEDMAN

2013

Chinese Workers on the Belt and Road / Aaron HALEGUA

2014

Bearing Witness to History: Dagong Poets from the 1980s to the Present / Wanning SUN

2014

The Yue Yuen Strike / Marc BLECHER

2015

Replacing Humans with Machines / HUANG Yu

2015

Labour NGOs under Assault / Chloé FROISSART and Ivan FRANCESCHINI

2018

The Jasic Struggle / Manfred ELFSTROM

2018

Factories of Turkic Muslim Internment / Darren BYLER

2019

The Birth of a New Trade Union Movement in Hong Kong / Anita CHAN

The Future

Folding Time: Futuristic Reflections on Class Divisions in Contemporary China / Carlos ROJAS

The Affective Fallacy / CHEN Qiufan