Solinger, Dorothy J. (2001) The new crowd of the dispossessed: factory layoffs and the informalization of the urban economy. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) (No.81/).

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Abstract

This paper contrasts the old "crowd" of the revered urban proletariat from the days of Mao Zedong to the new "crowd" of laid-off workers. It utilizes concepts from the book, CROWDS AND POWER, by Elias Canetti, to characterize the opposed characteristics of the two crowds, and details the plight of the current crowd, as well as highlighting some continuities in the behavior and treatment of the working class by the regime. It also provides some statistics on unemployment, reemployment, benefits, and poverty among the old working class, and shows how its members have become informal workers.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Proletariat -- China, Working class -- Economic conditions, Informal sector (Economics) -- China, Unemployment -- China
Series Name:	Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation)
Publisher:	University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Place of Publication:	Coventry
Official Date:	August 2001
Dates:	Date Event August 2001 Published
Number:	No.81/
Number of Pages:	19
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access

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