"Striking to Survive: Workers' Resistance [in China]" book talks, San Francisco Bay Area, 7-11 October 2018

The struggles of these workers in China’s industrial centers are shaping the future of labor and workers' power not only in China but throughout the world. These vivid stories of workers at factories that supply multinational corporations Walmart and Uniqlo, compiled by worker-activists and circulated underground, provide a unique, on-the-ground perspective on the most recent wave of militancy among China’s enormous working class.

Striking to Survive includes a uniquely fine-grained account of the strike organized by "Delegate Wu" -- a worker activist who served more than a year in prison after the strike ended. The New York Times has produced this video (linked below) about Delegate Wu, which gives a sense of his work:

"In China, A Surge in Strikes"

Publisher announcement:

Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
By Fan Shigang
Introduction by Sam Austin and Pun Ngai

Book review:

Labor Notes: "Chinese Workers Strike against Runaway Factories"

Speakers:

Fan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical, Factory Stories, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China, documenting their lives, work, and struggles.

Li Wen has worked in electronics and jewelry factories in southern China. She interviews and documents the experience of factory workers who've joined collective struggles, and pays particular attention to issues of occupational injury and disease.

Locations:

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Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland CA 94609
Sunday, 7 October 2018, 3:00 p.m

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Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 7:30 p.m

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DeAnza College
Conference Rooms A and B, Hinson Campus Center
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino CA 95014
Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 11:30 a.m
Co-sponsors:
De Anza Student Body(DASB)
VIDA and the De Anza Political Science Department

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The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street, San Francisco CA 94102
Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 7:00 p.m

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San Jose State University
Student Union, Meeting Rooms 2A & 2B
One Washington Square, San Jose CA 95192
Thursday, 11 October 2018,12:00 p.m

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Stanford University
Asian American Activities Center
Old Union Clubhouse, 2nd Floor
524 Lasuen Mall, Stanford CA 94305
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 7:00 p.m
Co-sponsors:
Stanford Asian American Activism CommitteeStanford Asian American Students' AssociationThe Learning Club of the Tech Workers Coalition

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Sponsored by:

Haymarket Books

Labor Notes

Anthropology & Social Change Department at California Institute of Integral Studies

Global Supply Chains Study/Research Group

East Coast book talks:

Cornell University ILR, Ives Hall Faculty Wing, #281 Doherty Loungue, Ithaca NY, 21 September, 4:30 p.m.

Pennsylvania State University, Keller Building Room 502, 304 Fischer Rd., State College PA, 24 September, 11:30 a.m.

The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York NY, 24 September, 6:00 p.m.

CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor -- Room 18A, NewYork NY, 25 September, 12:00 p.m.

Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall Women's Studies Lounge, 1835 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 26 September, 2:00 p.m.

Johns Hopkins University, Mergenthaler Hall Room 526, Baltimore MD, 27 September, 1:30 p.m.

Red Emma's, 1225 Cathedral Street, Baltimore MD, 27 September, (evening: t.b.d.)

Midwest book talks::

Columbia College, Hokin Hall Room 109, 623 S. Wabash, Chicago IL, 29 September, 4:00 p.m.