Contesting inequalities : mediated labor activism and rural migrant workers in China /

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy--the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particularly among rural migrant workers, and oppressive labor conditions have given rise to an increas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yin, Siyuan (Communications professor) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : forming counter-hegemonic forces : resistance movements and possibility of change
  • Encountering unequal China : rural migrant workers and the global working class
  • Transforming subjectivities : female migrant domestic workers and advocacy through theatre performance
  • Challenging capitalism and neoliberalism : new workers and working-class cultural production
  • Articulating feminism : feminist labor activism and intersectional interventions
  • Building alliances : pluralistic counter-publics and networks of labor activism
  • Conclusion : another world is indeed possible.