The Making of Chinaâs Working Class

Name: The Making of Chinaâs Working Class
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A World to Lose

By: Marc Blecher

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Hardcover | 30 April 2026 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2

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Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis of the development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of Chinaâs Working Class: A World to Lose seeks the foundation for all this in three questions: What kind of class is Chinaâs working class? What are the historical forces and processes that have formed it? And how does the pattern of class formation help explain the working classâs reactions historically, presently, and prospectively?

Blecher offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the countryâs politics and the stateâs hegemony more widely as well as to comparative labor politics. Combining usefulness, thoroughness, and clarity, The Making of Chinaâs Working Class is an outstanding resource for educators and students, a bookshelf staple for understanding Chinese politics and comparative working class politics.

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In this bold, original treatise on the variegated fortunes of China's workers over more than a 100-year period, Marc Blecher considers their heterogenous fortunes and their disparate levels of agency by place, gender, skill, and political dauntlessness over time. He draws on a wealth of studies of these laborers and his own interviews, and grounds his analysis in the thinking of E.P. Thompson, Ira Katznelson, Gramsci, Karl Marx, and Michael Burawoy. There is much to chew over in his thoughtful, compassionate account.

Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine

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