Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, University of Sydney, Australia and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China and David S.G. Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia

• Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: The Sociopolitical Challenge of Economic Change – Peasants and Workers in Transformation Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman 1. Status Groups and Classes in a Chinese Village: From the Mao Era through Post-Mao IndustrializationJonathan Unger2. Awakening the God of Earth: Land, Place and Class in Urbanizing GuangdongLuigi Tomba3. The Making and Re-making of the Working Class in South ChinaParry P. Leung and Alvin Y. So4. Chinese Migrant Workers: Factors Constraining the Emergence of Class ConsciousnessAnita Chan and Kaxton Siu5. Industrial Restructuring and Class Transformation in ChinaJoel Andreas6. Working-class Cultural Spaces: Comparing the Old and the New Jack Linchuan Qiu and Hongzhe WangBibliography Index

'The strength of this thought provoking book is that each chapter combines theoretical reflections with penetrating empirical analysis, so it has a lot to offer anyone interested in social change in contemporary China.'

Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, University of Sydney, Australia and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China and David S.G. Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia

• Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: The Sociopolitical Challenge of Economic Change – Peasants and Workers in Transformation Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman 1. Status Groups and Classes in a Chinese Village: From the Mao Era through Post-Mao IndustrializationJonathan Unger2. Awakening the God of Earth: Land, Place and Class in Urbanizing GuangdongLuigi Tomba3. The Making and Re-making of the Working Class in South ChinaParry P. Leung and Alvin Y. So4. Chinese Migrant Workers: Factors Constraining the Emergence of Class ConsciousnessAnita Chan and Kaxton Siu5. Industrial Restructuring and Class Transformation in ChinaJoel Andreas6. Working-class Cultural Spaces: Comparing the Old and the New Jack Linchuan Qiu and Hongzhe WangBibliography Index

'The strength of this thought provoking book is that each chapter combines theoretical reflections with penetrating empirical analysis, so it has a lot to offer anyone interested in social change in contemporary China.'

Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, University of Sydney, Australia and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China and David S.G. Goodman, University of Sydney, Australia

• Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: The Sociopolitical Challenge of Economic Change – Peasants and Workers in Transformation Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman 1. Status Groups and Classes in a Chinese Village: From the Mao Era through Post-Mao IndustrializationJonathan Unger2. Awakening the God of Earth: Land, Place and Class in Urbanizing GuangdongLuigi Tomba3. The Making and Re-making of the Working Class in South ChinaParry P. Leung and Alvin Y. So4. Chinese Migrant Workers: Factors Constraining the Emergence of Class ConsciousnessAnita Chan and Kaxton Siu5. Industrial Restructuring and Class Transformation in ChinaJoel Andreas6. Working-class Cultural Spaces: Comparing the Old and the New Jack Linchuan Qiu and Hongzhe WangBibliography Index

'The strength of this thought provoking book is that each chapter combines theoretical reflections with penetrating empirical analysis, so it has a lot to offer anyone interested in social change in contemporary China.'