Joel Andreas, "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China," (Oxford University Press,2019)

In Disenfranchised, Joel Andreas recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped industrial relations in China over the past seven decades. Through interviews with workers and managers, Andreas provides a shop-floor perspective of the transformation of hired hands into permanent work unit members, the all-encompassing control of factory party committees, the battles of the Cultural Revolution, and the disenfranchisement of workers through industrial restructuring. Andreas introduces a general theoretical framework to analyze workplace authority relations and closes with an overview of parallel developments around the globe, chronicling the rise and fall of an era of industrial citizenship. Disenfranchised by Joel Andreas Industrial Relations in China Chinese Factory Work and Labor History Cultural Revolution and Workplace Authority Worker Disenfranchisement in China Industrial Restructuring in Chinese Factories Permanent Work Units in China Party Committees and Factory Control Shop-Floor Perspective in Chinese Industry Industrial Citizenship and Global Trends Labor History and Workplace Authority in China Worker and Manager Interviews in China