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The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s - Demystifying China's Society and Social Classes in the Post-Mao Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s - Demystifying China's Society and Social Classes in the Post-Mao Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's
working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the
consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective. It
argues the case that, far from the illusion during the Maoist
period that a new society had been established where the working
classes held greater political and economic autonomy, economic
reforms in the post-Mao era have led to the return of traditional
Marxist proletariats in China. The book demonstrates how the
reforms of Deng Xiaoping have led to increased economic efficiency
at the expense of economic equality through an extensive case study
of an SOE (state-owned enterprise) in Sichuan Province as well as
wider discussions of the emergence of state capitalism on both a
micro and macroeconomic level. The book also discusses workers'
protests during these periods of economic reform to reflect the
reformation of class consciousness in post-Mao China, drawing on
Marx's concept of a transition from a 'class-in-itself' to a
'class-for-itself'. It will be valuable reading for students and
scholars of Chinese economic and social history, as well as
political economy, sociology, and politics.
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