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Monday, July 4 • 9:30am - 11:00am
China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance

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China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time.

China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and other multinational companies. Drawing on dozens of interviews with Chinese workers, this book documents the processes of migration, changing employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth.



Suggested Readings:
China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance edited by Hao Ren, Eli Friedman, and Zhongjin Li (Haymarket Books, 2016)
Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants
 by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Verso)
Trade unions in China by Tim Pringle (Routledge)
China's rise: strength and fragility by Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue (Merlin Press)
Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by (Duke University Press)

Speakers
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Charlie Hore

Charlie Hore lives and works in London, and is a member of rs21 (revolutionary socialism in the 21st century) in Britain. He has written extensively on China and other topics for a number of publications, including the International Socialist Review. He is currently working on a book... Read More →


Monday July 4, 2016 9:30am - 11:00am CDT
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