How China Works

<p>Spanning the whole of the twentieth century <em>How China Works</em> examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international team of contributors treat China's twentieth-century revolution as an industrial revolution stressing that China's recent emergence as the new workshop of the world was a gradual change and not a recent phenomena led by external forces. </p><p>Providing the reader with extensive ethnographic research on topics such as culture and community in the workplace the rural-urban divide industrialization subcontracting and employment practices <em>How China Works</em> really does ground the study of Chinese work in the daily interactions in the workplace the labour process and the micropolitics of work. </p>