Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics

Book Overview

In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349378291
• ISBN13: 9781349378296
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"