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245 10 a| Doing labor activism in South Chinah| [electronic resource] :b| the complicity of uncertainty /c| Darcy Pan.;

260 a| Abingdon, Oxon ;a| New York, NY :b| Routledge,c| 2020.;

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300 a| pages cm.;

490 0 a| Routledge contemporary China series;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Locating uncertainty -- Pragmatic state, precarious labor -- Uncertainty at work -- The politics of mingan -- Intimating secrecy -- Collective action -- Conclusion : laboring through uncertainty.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act - or not act - when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the dynamics of state control in post-socialist China since the 1970s, in which rapid economic and social transformations have cultivated an environment of uncertainty. Taking uncertainty as an analytical space, productive of emergent practices and discourses, this book draws on original fieldwork and interviews to study the lived experiences of different actors throughout the labor NGO community, the foreign donors trying to bring about change, and the networks of social relationships being strategically reconfigured. Doing Labor Activism in South China offers an ethnography of the Chinese state that reveals an intimate and complicit modality of self-governing, demonstrating how neoliberal ideas are at once represented by international development and deflected in grassroots development. It will be useful to students and scholars of Social Anthropology and Urban Ethnography, as well as Political Science and Chinese Studies more generally"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Doing labor activism in South China the complicity of uncertainty / Darcy Pan.

Author/creator	Pan, Darcy
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Description	pages cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Labor movement--China. Labor unions--China. Non-governmental organizations--China. China--Economic policy. --1949-. China--Economic conditions. --1949-.

Series	Routledge contemporary China series
Contents	Locating uncertainty -- Pragmatic state, precarious labor -- Uncertainty at work -- The politics of mingan -- Intimating secrecy -- Collective action -- Conclusion : laboring through uncertainty.
Abstract	"How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act - or not act - when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the dynamics of state control in post-socialist China since the 1970s, in which rapid economic and social transformations have cultivated an environment of uncertainty. Taking uncertainty as an analytical space, productive of emergent practices and discourses, this book draws on original fieldwork and interviews to study the lived experiences of different actors throughout the labor NGO community, the foreign donors trying to bring about change, and the networks of social relationships being strategically reconfigured. Doing Labor Activism in South China offers an ethnography of the Chinese state that reveals an intimate and complicit modality of self-governing, demonstrating how neoliberal ideas are at once represented by international development and deflected in grassroots development. It will be useful to students and scholars of Social Anthropology and Urban Ethnography, as well as Political Science and Chinese Studies more generally"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2020007721
ISBN	9780367406752 (hardback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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