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Putting Class in Its Place

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The studies in this volume dismiss the myth of the quiescent East Asian worker. Worker activism is not fully explained by familiar models of class consciousness; educational aspirations, family pre...
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The studies in this volume dismiss the myth of the quiescent East Asian worker. Worker activism is not fully explained by familiar models of class consciousness; educational aspirations, family pressures, gender roles, state directives, native-place origins, and clientelist networks have proven as decisive as class consciousness in shaping the behavior of East Asian workers. These workers appear to have been more consumed with the politics of "place" than with a "class" struggle to further their interests.
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Pages: 264
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 January 1996
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290502
Format: Paperback
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Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She has also served as professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Education: B.A. Hobart and William Smith College, Ph.D. University of Michigan

Acknowledgements – vii
Contributors – ix

Introduction: Putting Class in Its Place: Bases of Worker Identity in East Asia – 1
Elizabeth J. Perry

1. Conditions for the Disappearance of the Japanese Working-Class Movement – 11
    Andrew Gordon

2. Work, Culture, and Consciousness of the Korean Working Class – 53
    Hagen Koo

3. Class Identity without Class Consciousness? Working-Class Orientations in Taiwan – 77
    Nai-teh Wu

4. Changing Literary Images of Taiwan’s Working Class – 103
    Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

5. Owner, Worker, Mother, Wife: Taibei and Chengdu Family Businesswomen – 127
    Hill Gates

6. The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the Factories: Party-State Structures and Patterns of Conflict – 167
    Andrew G. Walder

7. Chinese Sex Workers in the Reform Period – 199
    Gail Hershatter

8. Regional Identity, Labor, and Ethnicity in Contemporary China – 225
    Emily Honig

Index – 245