The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class: Labor Activism and Passivity in China.

Indeed, Leung suggests this has been the case with the legally oriented Guangdong NGOs that helped arrange some of the book's worker interviews. Her argument is buttressed by a review of Chinese labour history from the early 20th century up to present and interviews conducted between 2011 and 2014 with 74 workers in six cities in China, including both those workers who have joined in collective actions and those who have not. The book posits an unbroken pattern of state control over Chinese workers' minds, from imperial China through the Mao era to today. [Extracted from the article]