Wai Kit Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2016672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wai Kit Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wai Kit |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI W K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032–8228 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sisyphus’s Rock of Prosperity and Disparity in the Global Economy: Giovanni Arrighi and Apple Inc’s Tax Avoidance Strategies from Obama to Trump
The global value chain (GVC) perspective assumes that business firms’ occupation of high value-added nodes in the global production network can promote their countries’ socio-economic development. However, I argue that society-wide benefits that may follow from firms’ profit-maximizing activities are often ephemeral. Over time the middle class can shrink, and economic inequality can increase even when firms continue to move up to higher value-add…
Making Capitalism with Gangsters: Unfree Labor in Shanghai's Cotton Mills, 1927–1937
It is thought that workers under capitalism enjoy the freedom of changing employment at will, but studies show that unfree labor has historically existed alongside capitalist development. One explanation for the use of unfree labor under capitalism highlights the functional needs of production. However, the baoshengong , a form of bonded labor that was used in cotton mills in Shanghai from 1927 to 1937, problematizes this approach. Though the bao…
China and the Global Apparel Commodity Chain
Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
Capitalism, Unfree Labor and Colonial Doxa: The Master and Servant Act from Britain to Hong Kong, 1823-1932
The Master and Servant Act was a law that allowed the use of penal sanction against workers for breach of contract in nineteenth century Britain. For scholars who believe that wage laborers under capitalism are free from "extra-economic" coercion, this law was an anomaly. One explanation suggests technological backwardness during the early stages of capitalism as the cause. In this paper I will challenge this account and offer an alternative expl…
Revolutionary Shanghai: Rethinking Class and the Politics of Difference through Chinese Communism
A major theme in Hardt's and Negri's work concerns how domination is exercised in the era of empire . Current capitalist globalization results in the rise of immaterial labor — a phase in which capital subordinates labor through biopolitical domination. Along this new form of domination which engulfs more social groups than before, a new subject of resistance has emerged — the multitude . These changes highlight the weakness of earlier forms of c…
Toward a Communist Immanent Critique: Maoism, the Frankfurt School, and Angelus Novus
(Post)coloniality as a Chinese state of exception1
The recent trend of class polarization in Hong Kong began in the 1990s and has continued unabated after the handover of the city-state to China. It has often been pointed out that this trend, as reflected in the growth in income inequality and the demise of the middle class, is a result of Hong Kong's structural transformation from an export-led manufacturing power to a business service-based economy. The restructuring of the economy is indeed fu…
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City
Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
Capitalism, Unfree Labor and Colonial Doxa: The Master and Servant Act from Britain to Hong Kong, 1823-1932
The Master and Servant Act was a law that allowed the use of penal sanction against workers for breach of contract in nineteenth century Britain. For scholars who believe that wage laborers under capitalism are free from "extra-economic" coercion, this law was an anomaly. One explanation suggests technological backwardness during the early stages of capitalism as the cause. In this paper I will challenge this account and offer an alternative expl…
(Post)coloniality as a Chinese state of exception1
The recent trend of class polarization in Hong Kong began in the 1990s and has continued unabated after the handover of the city-state to China. It has often been pointed out that this trend, as reflected in the growth in income inequality and the demise of the middle class, is a result of Hong Kong's structural transformation from an export-led manufacturing power to a business service-based economy. The restructuring of the economy is indeed fu…
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City
Making Capitalism with Gangsters: Unfree Labor in Shanghai's Cotton Mills, 1927–1937
It is thought that workers under capitalism enjoy the freedom of changing employment at will, but studies show that unfree labor has historically existed alongside capitalist development. One explanation for the use of unfree labor under capitalism highlights the functional needs of production. However, the baoshengong , a form of bonded labor that was used in cotton mills in Shanghai from 1927 to 1937, problematizes this approach. Though the bao…
China and the Global Apparel Commodity Chain
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City
(Post)coloniality as a Chinese state of exception1
The recent trend of class polarization in Hong Kong began in the 1990s and has continued unabated after the handover of the city-state to China. It has often been pointed out that this trend, as reflected in the growth in income inequality and the demise of the middle class, is a result of Hong Kong's structural transformation from an export-led manufacturing power to a business service-based economy. The restructuring of the economy is indeed fu…
Revolutionary Shanghai: Rethinking Class and the Politics of Difference through Chinese Communism
A major theme in Hardt's and Negri's work concerns how domination is exercised in the era of empire . Current capitalist globalization results in the rise of immaterial labor — a phase in which capital subordinates labor through biopolitical domination. Along this new form of domination which engulfs more social groups than before, a new subject of resistance has emerged — the multitude . These changes highlight the weakness of earlier forms of c…
Toward a Communist Immanent Critique: Maoism, the Frankfurt School, and Angelus Novus
China and the Global Apparel Commodity Chain
Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
Capitalism, Unfree Labor and Colonial Doxa: The Master and Servant Act from Britain to Hong Kong, 1823-1932
The Master and Servant Act was a law that allowed the use of penal sanction against workers for breach of contract in nineteenth century Britain. For scholars who believe that wage laborers under capitalism are free from "extra-economic" coercion, this law was an anomaly. One explanation suggests technological backwardness during the early stages of capitalism as the cause. In this paper I will challenge this account and offer an alternative expl…
The Sisyphus’s Rock of Prosperity and Disparity in the Global Economy: Giovanni Arrighi and Apple Inc’s Tax Avoidance Strategies from Obama to Trump
The global value chain (GVC) perspective assumes that business firms’ occupation of high value-added nodes in the global production network can promote their countries’ socio-economic development. However, I argue that society-wide benefits that may follow from firms’ profit-maximizing activities are often ephemeral. Over time the middle class can shrink, and economic inequality can increase even when firms continue to move up to higher value-add…
Making Capitalism with Gangsters: Unfree Labor in Shanghai's Cotton Mills, 1927–1937
It is thought that workers under capitalism enjoy the freedom of changing employment at will, but studies show that unfree labor has historically existed alongside capitalist development. One explanation for the use of unfree labor under capitalism highlights the functional needs of production. However, the baoshengong , a form of bonded labor that was used in cotton mills in Shanghai from 1927 to 1937, problematizes this approach. Though the bao…
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