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Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development

Yu Hong

In Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China's ICT development over the last thirty years at the intersection of transnational trends, domestic policies, and institutional arrangements, Hong shows how evolving class relations in the ICT sector are shaped by and shaping the transnational capitalist dynamics and domestic socio-economic transformations. She goes on to argue that the huge and still expanding pool of Chinese ICT workers and their newly attained identities-as wage labor rather than consumers-constitute a missing but important dimension of human experiences of the rise of the "information society."
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Lexington Books
Pages: 322 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-3726-0 • Hardback • March 2011 • $150.00 • (£115.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-7391-3728-4 • eBook • March 2011 • $142.50 • (£110.00)
Subjects: Business & Economics / International / Economics, Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development, Business & Economics / Labor
Yu Hong is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California.
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE ICT DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA
Chapter 3: THE COMPOSITION OF ICT WORKFORCES AND ITS INDICATIONS OF CHINA'S DEVELOPMENTAL STRATEGY
Chapter 4: PROCUREMENT, MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE
Chapter 5: PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS: BETWEEN LIVED EXPERIENCES AND PAST MEMORIES
Chapter 6: WILL CHINESE ICT WORKERS UNITE?-NEW SIGNS OF CHANGE IN THE AFTERMANTH OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Chapter 7: CONCLUSION
Chapter 8 METHODOLOGICAL APPENDICES
Chapter 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
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  • In Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China's ICT development over the last thirty years at the intersection of transnational trends, domestic policies, and institutional arrangements, Hong shows how evolving class relations in the ICT sector are shaped by and shaping the transnational capitalist dynamics and domestic socio-economic transformations. She goes on to argue that the huge and still expanding pool of Chinese ICT workers and their newly attained identities-as wage labor rather than consumers-constitute a missing but important dimension of human experiences of the rise of the "information society."
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 322 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-0-7391-3726-0 • Hardback • March 2011 • $150.00 • (£115.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
    978-0-7391-3728-4 • eBook • March 2011 • $142.50 • (£110.00)
    Subjects: Business & Economics / International / Economics, Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development, Business & Economics / Labor
Author
Author
  • Yu Hong is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
    Chapter 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE ICT DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA
    Chapter 3: THE COMPOSITION OF ICT WORKFORCES AND ITS INDICATIONS OF CHINA'S DEVELOPMENTAL STRATEGY
    Chapter 4: PROCUREMENT, MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE
    Chapter 5: PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS: BETWEEN LIVED EXPERIENCES AND PAST MEMORIES
    Chapter 6: WILL CHINESE ICT WORKERS UNITE?-NEW SIGNS OF CHANGE IN THE AFTERMANTH OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
    Chapter 7: CONCLUSION
    Chapter 8 METHODOLOGICAL APPENDICES
    Chapter 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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