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In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives. THOMAS B. GOLD was founding Director of the Berkeley China Initiative and is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. WILLIAM J. HURST is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. JAEYOUN WON is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. LI QIANG is Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science, and Professor of Sociology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. PART I: RESTRUCTURING THE ECONOMIC ORDER Introduction: Xiagang: Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State; W.J.Hurst , T.B.Gold , & J.Won Broadening the Debate on Xiagang: Peasant Workers and Xiagang in History; L.Guang PART II: XIAGANG WORKERS Voices of Xiagang: Naming, Blaming, and Framing; E.P.W.Hung & S.W.K.Chiu The Sound of Silence: Politics of Unemployment in Northeast China; J.Won The Professional Reinteration of the ‘Xiagang’; L.Peilin & Z.Yi PART III: THE POLITICS OF XIAGANG Government Policies and Chinese Laid-Off Workers; Y.Cai Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Poitical Patronage in China: Celebrated State (once-) Workers and State Chagrin; D.J.Solinger Class Formation or Fragmentation? Allegiances and Divisions among Managers and Workers in State-Owned Enterprises; K.Lin The Power of the Past: Nostalgia and Popular Discontent in Contemporary China; W.J.Hurst The Reemergence of Street Protests: State Workers Challenge the Chinese State; A.Kernen
