Introduction The Proletariat Is Dead, Long Live the Proletariat! | PDF
Ivan FRANCESCHINI and Christian SORACE
1898 ‘A Cheaper Machine for the Work’ | PDF
Corey BYRNES
1902 Techno-Utopias and Robots in China’s Past Futures | PDF
Craig A. SMITH
1915 An Extraordinary Journey: Chinese Labourers on the Western Front during the Great War | PDF
XU Guoqi
1920 A Day Trip to Changxindian | PDF
DENG Zhongxia (translated by ZHOU Ruixue)
1921 Setting Sail: The Foundation of the Chinese Communist Party | PDF
LIN Chun
1922 The Anyuan Strike of 1922: Lessons in Leadership | PDF
Elizabeth J. PERRY
1923 The 7 February Massacre | PDF
LUO Zhanglong (translated by Tony SAICH)
1925 From the May Thirtieth Movement to the Canton–Hong Kong Strike | PDF
Apo LEONG
1925 Everyday Politics in Tianjin Factories | PDF
Gail HERSHATTER
1925 The Founding of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions | PDF
WANG Kan
1927 The Third Armed Uprising and the Shanghai Massacre | PDF
S.A. SMITH
1927 Organising Rural Society: Disintegrating Rural Governance, Peasant Associations, and the Hailufeng Soviet |PDF
Alexander F. DAY
1928 Feminist Agitation inside Chinese Factories |PDF
Yige DONG
1929 Striking for Rice: The Struggle for the ‘Rice Allowance’ in Republican China |PDF
Seung-Joon LEE
1938 Resurgence of Labour Activism in Prewar Hong Kong | PDF
LU Yan
1941 The New China Daily and the Moral Language of Class in Wartime Chongqing | PDF
Joshua H. HOWARD
1942 The Rise and Fall of Wu Manyou, China’s First Labour Hero |PDF
Bo Ærenlund SØRENSEN
1946 Production in Revolution: Agricultural and Political Labour during Land Reform |PDF
Brian DEMARE
1948 Women Workers and the Shanghai Cotton Mill Strike of 1948 |PDF
Emily HONIG
1949 On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship (Excerpt) |PDF
MAO Zedong
1949 Continuity and Change: Women Workers in the Early People’s Republic of China |PDF
Robert CLIVER
1949 A Spark Extinguished: Worker Militancy in Taiwan after World War II (1945–1950) |PDF
Po-chien CHEN and Yi-hung LIU
1951 Li Lisan on the Relationship between Management and Unions |PDF
LI Lisan
1951 Revolutionising the Factory through the Mass Political Campaign |PDF
Jake WERNER
1952 Housing the New Socialist Worker: The ‘Workers’ New Village’ in Shanghai |PDF
Mark W. FRAZIER
1952 The First Patriotic Locust Extermination Campaign: Rural Labour Mobilisation and Pest Control in the Early People’s Republic of China |PDF
John WILLIAMS
1955 The Short-Lived Eternity of Friendship: Chinese Workers in Socialist Mongolia (1955–1964) |PDF
Christian SORACE and Ruiyi ZHU
1957 How Do Unions Handle Contradictions among the People? |PDF
LAI Ruoyu
1957 Confronting the State: The Strike Wave of 1957 |PDF
CHEN Feng
1958 Beyond the Wage: Zhang Chunqiao, Bourgeois Right, and Maoism as Theory |PDF
Benjamin KINDLER
1958 Reorganising Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System |PDF
Jane HAYWARD
1960 Workers’ Peril in the Workers’ State: The Laobaidong Colliery Disaster |PDF
Tim WRIGHT
1960 The Angang Constitution: Labour, Industry and Bureaucracy during the Great Leap Forward |PDF
Koji HIRATA
1960 Production First, Life Second: The 1960 Ban on Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving |PDF
Jacob EYFERTH
1961 Anatomy of a Woman Worker: Collectivisation and Labour during the Great Leap Forward |PDF
Aminda SMITH and Fabio LANZA
1962 Working Together in Agricultural Production Teams: The Work Lives of the Majority of Chinese Under Mao |PDF
Jonathan UNGER
1963 Gods, Ghosts, and Workers: ‘Feudal Superstition’ and the Socialist Education Movement, 1963–1966 |PDF
S.A. SMITH
1964 Learning from the Daqing Oilfields |PDF
Maggie CLINTON
1964 The Third Front Campaign |PDF
Covell F. MEYSKENS
1967 The January Storm of 1967: From Representation to Action and Back Again |PDF
Patricia M. THORNTON
2007 Slaving Away: The ‘Black Brick Kilns Incident’ of 2007 | PDF
Ivan FRANCESCHINI
2008 The Labour Contract Law and Its Discontents | PDF
Mary E. GALLAGHER
2008 ‘Make Contributions and Offer Your Youth for Tomorrow’s Dream’: The Establishment of the Shenzhen Migrant Worker Museum | PDF
Eric FLORENCE and Junxi QIAN
2009 Zhang Haichao’s ‘Open-Chest Case’ | PDF
Ralph LITZINGER and Yanping NI
2010 The Nanhai Honda Strike | PDF
Chris King-Chi CHAN and Elaine Sio-Ieng HUI