How China Works

Jacob Eyferth is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He is the co-editor of Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture (London: Frank Cass 2003) and author of articles in The China Quarterly and the Journal of Peasant Studies.

• 1. How China Works: Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Workplace 2. Village Industries and the Making of Rural-Urban Difference in Early Twentieth-Century Shanxi 3. Socialist Deskilling: The Struggle over Skills in a Rural Craft Industry, 1949-1965 4. Commanding Heights Industrialization and Wage Determination in the Chinese Factory, 1950-1957 5. Industrial Involution: Recruitment and Development within the Railway System 6. Serving the State, Serving the People: Work in a Post-Socialist Department Store 7. Capital's Incorporation of Labor Rights and Corporate Codes of Conduct in a Chinese Dormitory Labor Regime 8. Work, Conformity, and Defiance: Strategies of Resistance and Control in China's Township and Village Enterprises 9. Labor on the "Floating Native Land": A Case Study of Seafarers on PRC Ocean-Going Ships