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7:30 pm Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China @ Pegasus Bookstore
Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China @ Pegasus Bookstore
Oct 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. In conversation with Li Wen. What is the meaning of the thousands of strikes in China? Do these strikes add up to a “labor movement”? How can solidarity between Chinese and American workers be built? Countering the popular myth that Chinese workers are “stealing American jobs,” Striking to Survive documents a recent wave of factory closures in China’s Pearl River Delta and struggles by workers there to hold onto their jobs, their pensions, and their livelihoods. The struggles of these workers … Continued