Insurgency Trap – Labor Politics in Postsocialist China Friedman Hardback

Insurgency TrapLabor Politics in Postsocialist China\nAuthor(s): Eli Friedman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9780801452697, 978-0801452697\nSynopsis\nDuring the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an \""insurgency trap\"" of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process of capitalist industrialization is certainly not unique to China and indeed has appeared in a wide array of countries around the world. What is distinct in China, however, is the combination of postsocialist politics with rapid capitalist development. \n\n Other countries undergoing capitalist industrialization have incorporated relatively independent unions to tame labor con.