Eli Friedman, Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Post-Socialist China

摘要

Friedman seek to address a problem of the political economy of early twenty-first-century China: Why is it that in more than 10 years since the central government began to shift away from full-fledged marketization, migrant worker unrest has continued to grow? Why have the efforts of certain segments of the state to promote class compromise largely failed? In the "Insurgency Trap", Friedman focuses on the state-controlled unions under the umbrella of the "All China Federation of Trade Unions" (ACFTU) and their relationship to migrant workers, capital, and other state agencies. His central argument is that the dynamics of working class representation in post-socialist China have prevented the institutionalization of class compromise.