The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949

Xiaojun Feng is Associate Professor of Sociology at China Agricultural University.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Precarious Wage Labour before 1949; 3. Incipient Socialist Surplus Appropriation, Exclusion, and Decommodification, 1949–1957; 4. Radical Inclusion and Radical Exclusion, 1958–1965; 5. Rebellion, Regularization, and Rebounding, 1966–1976; 6. Restoring Exploitation, Recalibrating Exclusion, and Recommodification since 1977; 7. Rise of Agency Labour and Regulations for Labour Protection; 8. Formal and Agency Workers in the 2010s; 9. Labour Precarity in Historical and Comparative Perspective; Appendix: List of Interviews; Bibliography; Index.

'The Making of Labour Precarity in China is a tour de force. Feng traces the evolution of precarious labour in urban China over the past century, an era marked by a series of radical changes in employment relations, mastering the complexities of each period.' Joel Andreas, Johns Hopkins University