Reworking China's Proletariat

Sally Sargeson presents the first major study of the impact of market reforms on the recruitment and working conditions, relationships, identities and attitudes of China's new proletariat. Her detailed ethnographic fieldwork in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, forms the basis for a theoretical analysis of the interconnections between the development of capitalist relations of production and class formation in China, and state power, place and particularism. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with contemporary China's political economy, as well as processes of socialist transition, working-class formation, and the representation of collective identities.