Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-wxvwp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-14T13:48:23.308Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Hegemony and Workers' Politics in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2002

Marc J. Blecher
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.

Workers' protests in the 1980s and 1990s, numerous and widely distributed though they may be, remain spasmodic, spontaneous and unco-ordinated. While the reasons are numerous, this article focuses on the role of workers' hegemonic acceptance of the core values of the market and the state. Data from interviews in Tianjin from 1995 to 1999 are used to explicate the existence of this hegemony. Several of its sources, some general, some specific to China, are then discussed. The findings are situated within recent scholarship on labour politics in China, and the prospects are discussed.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
The China Quarterly , Volume 170 , June 2002, pp. 283 - 303
Copyright
© The China Quarterly, 2002

Footnotes

My thanks to the many colleagues who commented on earlier versions of this article, including Kevin O'Brien, Dorothy Solinger and all the participants in the Cornell University East Asia Program China Colloquium – especially Sherman Cochran, Mark Selden, Vivienne Shue and Sidney Tarrow – which so kindly invited me to produce and present the first draft.