Independent Chinese workers' organizations took a leading role in
the 1989 Democracy Movement. They also suffered heavily for their
political dissent in the crackdown that followed, but attempts to
form independent trade unions have continued into the 1990s. Jackie
Sheehan traces the background and development of workers' clashes
with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the
1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the Cultural Revolution, the April
Fifth Movement of 1976, Democracy Wall and the 1989 Democracy
Movement. The author provides a detailed and complete picture of
workers protest in China to 1998 and locates their position within
the context of Chinese political history. The book demonstrates
that the image of Chinese workers as politically conformist and
reliable supporters of the Communist Party does not match the
realities of industrial life in China. Recent outbreaks of protest
by workers are less of a departure from the past than is generally
realized.
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