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The Making of China’s Working Class

A World to Lose

Author: Marc Blecher   Series: Conceptualising Comparative Politics

The Making of China’s Working Class
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The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely. This book is an outstanding resource for educators and students to understand Chinese politics and comparative working-class politics.

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The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely. This book is an outstanding resource for educators and students to understand Chinese politics and comparative working-class politics.

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Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis on development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose seeks the foundation for all this in three questions: what kind of class is the Chinese working class?; what are the historical forces and processes that have formed it?; and how does the pattern of class formation help explain the working class’s reactions historically, presently, and even prospectively?

Blecher offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely as well as to comparative labor politics. Combining usefulness, thoroughness, and clarity, The Making of China’s Working Class is an outstanding resource for educators and students, a bookshelf staple to understand Chinese politics and comparative working-class politics.

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Critic Reviews

In this bold, original treatise on the variegated fortunes of China's workers over more than a 100-year period, Marc Blecher considers their heterogenous fortunes and their disparate levels of agency by place, gender, skill, and political dauntlessness over time. He draws on a wealth of studies of these laborers and his own interviews, and grounds his analysis in the thinking of E.P. Thompson, Ira Katznelson, Gramsci, Karl Marx, and Michael Burawoy. There is much to chew over in his thoughtful, compassionate account.

Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine

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Marc Blecher is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Sussex. His specialty is Chinese politics, on which he has published five books and dozens of articles on political science, rural and urban politics, popular participation, political economy, and political sociology.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
30th May 2025
Pages
272
ISBN
9781032854496

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