China Since Tiananmen

The Labor Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID6286545
AuthorsChing Kwan Lee (0000-0003-0672-5283, University of California, Los Angeles), Eli Friedman, Eli A Friedman (0000-0002-8677-3826, University of California, Berkeley)
Year2009
Volume20
Issue3
Pages21-24
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.0.0107
OpenAlexW1974339091
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The twenty years since 1989 have brought two major developments in worker activism. First, whereas workers were part of the mass uprising in the Tiananmen Movement, there is today hardly any sign of mobilization that transcends class or regional lines. Second, a long-term decline in worker power at the point of production is going on even as workers gain more power (at least on paper) outside the workplace. New labor laws have broadened workers' rights and engendered mobilization outside official limits, even as legal and bureaucratic procedures have also atomized and depoliticized labor activism

China · Development economics · Economics · Movement (music · Political economy · Political science · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy

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