Doing Labor Activism in South China: The Complicity of Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9780367513504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 212 str.

Opis

With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book investigates the dynamics of state control in post-socialist China, in which rapid economic and social transformations have cultivated an environment of uncertainty.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Locating uncertainty  2. Pragmatic state, precarious labor  3. Uncertainty at Work  4. The Politics of Mingan  5. Intimating Secrecy  6. Collective Action  Conclusion: Laboring Through Uncertainty

O autorze

Darcy Pan is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the state, labor, infrastructure, area studies specific to China, technology and urban development. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her most recent work has been published in the Handbook of Dissident and Protest in China (2019).