The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose (Conceptualising Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Blecher, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032854499 ISBN 13: 9781032854496

Verlag: Routledge, 2026

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Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis of the development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose seeks the foundation for all this in three questions: What kind of class is China’s working class? What are the historical forces and processes that have formed it? And how does the pattern of class formation help explain the working class’s reactions historically, presently, and prospectively?

Blecher offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely as well as to comparative labor politics. Combining usefulness, thoroughness, and clarity, The Making of China’s Working Class is an outstanding resource for educators and students, a bookshelf staple for understanding Chinese politics and comparative working class politics.

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Marc Blecher

is James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Fellow at The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. His specialty is Chinese politics, on which he has published five books and dozens of articles on political science, rural and urban politics, popular participation, political economy and political sociology.

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The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely. This book is an outstanding resource for educators and students to understand Chinese politics and comparative working-class politics.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032854499
• ISBN 13: 9781032854496
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
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