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

by Thomas B. Gold (Editor), W. Hurst (Editor), J. Won (Editor)

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.

270 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 2009