Skip to main content
Home
libcom.org

Main navigation

  • Recent
  • Donate
  • Collections
  • Introductions
  • Organise
  • About
User account menu
  • Log in / Register

Against the law: labour protests in China's rustbelt and sunbelt

Chinese workers protest
Chinese workers protest

A detailed study by Ching Kwan Lee of China's transition from a more state capitalist model to a more free market system from the 1990s to the early 2000s, the effect on the working class and how workers responded to the changes.

Submitted by Anonymous on July 11, 2017

Attachments

Against-law-1.pdf (6.13 MB)
Against-law-2.pdf (5.96 MB)
  • manufacturing and materials
  • strikes
  • China
  • state socialism
  • privatisation
  • Ching Kwan Lee
  • PDF

Comments

Related content

some of those Chinese workers the book is about

Chinese workers: A new history - Jackie Sheehan

This 1998 book traces the development of workers' struggles in China from the 1950s to the Tianenmen movement of 1989 and beyond. It looks at the…
Strikers during the 1925 Hong Kong general strike

The Chinese revolution 1925-1927

A short account of the mass struggles in China from 1925 up to the Shanghai insurrection of 1927 and its crushing by the nationalist forces of…
pamphlet cover

Fighting back in Ukraine - Oleg Dubrovskii with Simon Pirani

This short pamphlet was put together by Simon Pirani in 1996/7 from a series of interviews with…
PLA enter Beijng, bearing a portrait of Mao Zedong

The Mandate of Heaven - Nigel Harris

Chinese workers on motorbikes demonstrate

The Chinese democratic uprising, 1989

A detailed account of the national uprising for democracy which swept China in 1989 and was crushed after the Tiananmen Square massacre, written…

Without you, not a single cog turns… - Agents of Chaos

A text written some days after the conflict between the rioters and the stalinists on 20th October …

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Donate
  • Help out
  • Other languages
  • Site notes