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Article: Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Class Formation
Title | Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Class Formation |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China industrial conflict precariat precarity working class |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://wes.sagepub.com |
Citation | Work, Employment & Society, 2018, v. 32 n. 3, p. 599-615 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In refuting Guy Standing’s precariat as a class, we highlight that employment situation, worker identity and legal rights are mistakenly taken as theoretical components of class formation. Returning to theories of class we use Dahrendorf’s reading of Marx where three components of classes, the objective, the subjective and political struggle, are used to define the current formation of the working class in China. Class is not defined by status, identity or legal rights, but location in the sphere of production embedded within conflictual capital–labour relations. By engaging with the heated debates on the rise of a new working class in China, we argue that the blending of employment situation and rights in the West with the idea of precarity of migrant workers in China is misleading. Deconstructing the relationship between class and precarity, what we see as an unhappy coupling, is central to the article. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263263 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.135 |
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dc.contributor.author | Pun, N | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-22T07:36:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-22T07:36:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Work, Employment & Society, 2018, v. 32 n. 3, p. 599-615 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0950-0170 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/263263 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In refuting Guy Standing’s precariat as a class, we highlight that employment situation, worker identity and legal rights are mistakenly taken as theoretical components of class formation. Returning to theories of class we use Dahrendorf’s reading of Marx where three components of classes, the objective, the subjective and political struggle, are used to define the current formation of the working class in China. Class is not defined by status, identity or legal rights, but location in the sphere of production embedded within conflictual capital–labour relations. By engaging with the heated debates on the rise of a new working class in China, we argue that the blending of employment situation and rights in the West with the idea of precarity of migrant workers in China is misleading. Deconstructing the relationship between class and precarity, what we see as an unhappy coupling, is central to the article. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://wes.sagepub.com | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Work, Employment & Society | - |
dc.rights | Work, Employment & Society. Copyright © Sage Publications Ltd. | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | industrial conflict | - |
dc.subject | precariat | - |
dc.subject | precarity | - |
dc.subject | working class | - |
dc.title | Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Class Formation | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pun, N: npun@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Pun, N=rp02260 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0950017018762276 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85047896141 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 294584 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 599 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 615 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000434186600010 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0950-0170 | - |