Old working class, new working class: Reforms, labour crisis and the two faces of conflicts in Chinese urban areas

China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion and Collective Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-104

  Rocca, Jean Louis ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203492277     Document Type: Chapter

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