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