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Book SynopsisIn Labor, Class Formation, and China''s Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China''s ICT development over the last thirty years at the intersection of transnational trends, domestic policies, and institutional arrangements, Hong shows how evolving class relations in the ICT sector are shaped by and shaping the transnational capitalist dynamics and domestic socio-economic transformations. She goes on to argue that the huge and still expanding pool of Chinese ICT workers and their newly attained identities-as wage labor rather than consumers-constitute a missing but important dimension of human experiences of the rise of the information society.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE ICT DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA Chapter 3: THE COMPOSITION OF ICT WORKFORCES AND ITS INDICATIONS OF CHINA'S DEVELOPMENTAL STRATEGY Chapter 4: PROCUREMENT, MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE Chapter 5: PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS: BETWEEN LIVED EXPERIENCES AND PAST MEMORIES Chapter 6: WILL CHINESE ICT WORKERS UNITE?-NEW SIGNS OF CHANGE IN THE AFTERMANTH OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS Chapter 7: CONCLUSION Chapter 8 METHODOLOGICAL APPENDICES Chapter 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY
