The Beginning of the End for the Chinese Proletariat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12633010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bo Ærenlund Sørensen (0000-0003-2215-8610, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-76 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1395-4199 • E-ISSN: 2246-2163 |
| Publisher | Copenhagen Business School (PUBLISHER • DK) |
| DOI | 10.22439/cjas.v38i1.6061 |
| OpenAlex | W3088127297 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article examines how China’s Communist Party (CCP) sought to justify its policies fostering inequality at the urban factory floor in the early years after Mao’s death through publications in the People’s Daily. The article focuses on three issues that emerged frequently in the newspaper: the increased prevalence of incentive wages, the abolishment of life-time employment for workers and the evolving discourse related to worker influence at their workplace. The article shows that the People’s Daily did not simply seek to persuade the public that the reforms were compatible with socialism, the newspaper also took great care to showcase which kinds of behaviours and emotions would be appropriate for the new working subject. The CCP’s dedication to reforming the population through the press makes the People’s Daily an excellent source for tracking norm intransigence on the part of the population. Based on the observation that the CCP sought to legitimate policies ending employment security many years before such policies were adopted, the article also suggests that public opinion had a direct influence on the timing of the early reforms
China · Communism · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Inequality · Job security · Market economy · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Proletariat · Public opinion · Socialism · Sociology · Subject (documents · Work (physics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
China's political economy
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Chinese Economy. Transitions and Growth
The road to Tiananmen
The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992
China's Propaganda System
China's New Economic Policy Under Hua Guofeng
Riots' and Demonstrations in the Chinese Press
Reporting the Same Events? A Critical Analysis of Chinese Print News Media Texts
The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
Evening chats in Beijing
The 1980 County-Level Elections in China
Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms
Doing Things With Words in Chinese Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |