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DESCRIPTION:The Democratic Socialists of America (SF Chapter)'s Education Committee has 
 invited Eli Friedman as a guest speaker to give a talk on the working class 
 in China. It is important to note that Friedman does not speak for any DSA 
 body, including DSA SF or the DSA SF Education Committee. We simply think 
 Friedman’s research on the working class in China offers a good jumping 
 off point for discussion. Following Friedman’s talk, the floor will be 
 open to discussion. If attendance is high, we will use breakout rooms so 
 everyone has a chance to participate and so the discussion is not dominated 
 by a few voices.\n\nPlease share this widely. We hope to see you! 
 \n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nEli Friedman is Associate Professor and chair of 
 International and Comparative Labor at the ILR School at Cornell 
 University. He is the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in 
 Postsocialist China (2014) and coeditor of the English edition of China on 
 Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (2016). He is also the author 
 of the forthcoming book titled The Urbanization of People: The Politics of 
 Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese 
 City.\n\nDescription of Friedman’s talk:\nThe Exploitation and Resistance 
 of China's New Working Class\nOver the past forty years, an entirely new 
 working class has emerged in China in tandem with the country's transition 
 to capitalism. Socially and politically distinct from the Mao-era 
 proletarians, these migrant workers have left the countryside in search of 
 wage labor in the cities, and they now constitute an absolute majority of 
 the country's working class. But while the state has gone about 
 institutionalizing a national labor market over the past several decades, 
 citizenship is structured at the level of the city. This means that these 
 migrants are welcomed into the city as a source of cheap labor but denied 
 access to quality public services such as health care and education. This 
 readily exploitable population of nearly 300 million people is the social 
 basis of China's astonishing success at attracting foreign investment, 
 developing profitable enterprises (both private and state-owned), and 
 challenging the US for supremacy of the world capitalism system. 
 Nonetheless, these workers have hardly been complacent in the face of such 
 exploitation as they have quickly learned how to organize and mobilize 
 against capital, even amid the increasingly authoritarian political 
 environment of today's China.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/25/18845927.php
SUMMARY:DSA SF Education Committee: Conflict in China Discussion
LOCATION:The event is virtual:\n\nZoom 
 link:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOitpzsiGdBh4FEgJECa8aXG2XhSkz1P\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/25/18845927.php
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