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

by Hong, Yu

• ISBN13: 9780739137260
• ISBN10: 0739137263
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• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

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."

Author Biography

Yu Hong is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Political Economy of Chinese ICT Development in the Globalization Era	p. 31
The Composition of ICT Workforces and its Indications of China's Developmental Strategy	p. 95
Procurement, Management, and Discipline	p. 135
Practices and Identities of Migrant Workers: Between Lived Experiences and Past Memories	p. 183
Will Chinese ICT Workers Unite?: New Signs of Change in the Aftermath of the Global Economic Crisis	p. 221
Conclusion: Sites, Possibilities, and Uncertainties of Revising the ICT-Driven Neoliberal Development in 2008 and After	p. 245
Methodological Appendixes	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 309
About the Author	p. 313
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