CHALLENGING THE ATOMIZATION OF DISCONTENT: Patterns of Migrant-Worker Protest in China during the Series of Strikes in 2010

Critical Asian Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 419-440

  Butollo, Florian ^a   ten Brink, Tobias ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRANT WORKER; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; WAGE GAP;

CHINA;

EID: 84865392483     PISSN: 14672715     EISSN: 14726033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2012.711978     Document Type: Review

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