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DESCRIPTION:The new book China on Strike is based on dozens of interviews with workers 
 in Pearl River Delta factories, an industrial region of region of 60 
 million people that has become the "workshop of the world," as China has 
 become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three 
 decades. Pearl River Delta factories supply the world's most profitable 
 corporations, like Apple, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and many others. These 
 interviews document the processes of internal migration in China, changing 
 employment relations, worker culture, and other issues related to China’s 
 explosive growth. China on Strike is the first English-language book to 
 provide an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers as they 
 organize against low pay and brutal working conditions, launching the 
 world' largest strike wave in the 21st century.  Two of these contributors 
 will be in attendance and will speak and answer questions via interpreter 
 Alex T. Tom.\n\n"As these vivid case-studies illustrate, the real sleeping 
 dragon—China’s enormous factory proletariat—is wide awake and 
 fighting back on all fronts. Indeed, here is first-hand evidence that 
 Chairman Xi Jinping may soon confront the largest labor rebellion in 
 history."\n—Mike Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of California, 
 Riverside, and author of Planet of Slums\n\nFang Gang has worked in 
 factories since he graduated from university, conducting interviews with 
 other workers about their collective struggles in the Pearl River Delta and 
 compiling them into articles that are published and distributed. An example 
 is his 2013 piece "Strikes over the relocation of factories." Currently, 
 Fan Gang assists with workers taking collective action in the Pearl River 
 Delta.\n\nMi Tu has been engaged in doing translations of literature on 
 workers' struggles in other countries, as well as researching the 
 conditions of workers in China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), since her 
 university days. Since graduating, Mi has worked in factories, interviewed 
 workers engaged in struggles in the Pearl River Delta, and compiled and 
 circulated these oral histories. Mi currently assists workers taking 
 collective action against occupational diseases.\n\nAlex T. Tom 
 (interpreter) is the Executive Director of San Francisco's Chinese 
 Progressive Association.\n\nAdmission is free.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/24/18784482.php
SUMMARY:Chinese Factory Workers Talk About Labor Struggles at Home
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/24/18784482.php
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