Short-Circuited: Communication and Working Class Struggle in China.

The article looks at the global significance of the struggles of various social forces, especially workers and farmers, in China. Politically, they affect the domestic stability of the world's most populous nation. This paper also undertakes an initial effort by focusing on the communicative dimensions of unrest by industrial workers in China. The absence of the autonomous channels of communication limits the geographic scale and organizational coherency of coordinated industrial activism in the country.