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
