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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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.