Laid-off workers in a workers' state: unemployment with Chinese characteristics

Abstract

Introduction / William J. Hurst, Thomas B. Gold, and Jaeyoun Won -- Broadening the debate on xiagang : policy origins and parallels in history / Lei Guang -- Xiagang and the geometry of urban political patronage in China : celebrated state (once-) workers and state chagrin / Dorothy J. Solinger -- Class formation or fragmentation? Allegiances and divisions among managers and workers in state-owned enterprises / Kun-Chin Lin -- Voices of xiagang : naming, blaming, and framing / Eva P.W. Hung and Stephen W.K. Chiu -- The power of the past : nostalgia and popular discontent in contemporary China / William J. Hurst -- China's older workers : between law and policy, between laid off and unemployed / Mary E. Gallagher -- The professional reintegration of the "xiagang" / Li Peilin and Zhang Yi -- Farewell to socialist labor in China / Jaeyoun Won -- State policies and Chinese laid-off workers' limited resistance / Yongshun Cai -- The reemergence of street protests : state workers challenge the Chinese state / Antoine Kernen