Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State

PART I: RESTRUCTURING THE ECONOMIC ORDER Introduction: Xiagang: Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State; W.J.Hurst , T.B.Gold , & J.Won Broadening the Debate on Xiagang: Peasant Workers and Xiagang in History; L.Guang PART II: XIAGANG WORKERS Voices of Xiagang: Naming, Blaming, and Framing; E.P.W.Hung  & S.W.K.Chiu The Sound of Silence: Politics of Unemployment in Northeast China; J.Won The Professional Reinteration of the 'Xiagang'; L.Peilin  & Z.Yi PART III: THE POLITICS OF XIAGANG Government Policies and Chinese Laid-Off Workers; Y.Cai Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Poitical Patronage in China: Celebrated State (once-) Workers and State Chagrin; D.J.Solinger Class Formation or Fragmentation? Allegiances and Divisions among Managers and Workers in State-Owned Enterprises; K.Lin The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and Popular Discontent in Contemporary China; W.J.Hurst The Reemergence of Street Protests: State Workers Challenge the Chinese State; A.Kernen