The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

by Huaiyin Li

Book Overview

Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provides a bottom-up examination of working class participation in factory life during socialist and reform-era China. Huaiyin Li offers a series of new interpretations that challenge, revise, and enrich the existing scholarship on factory politics and worker performance during the Maoist years, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150363454X
• ISBN13: 9781503634541
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"