A Response to Robert Weil’s “Conditions of the Working Classes in China”
by Stephen Philion and Chi Hua*
Robert Weil’s recent (June 206) MR article on the condition of the Chinese working class has provided us with a rarely visited and lucid view of the impact of China’s turn to markets on both the economic and political decline of China’s working class. Such work, based on in-depth field interviews, can only serve as a basis for a deeper understanding of both the contradictions of China’s economic growth and potential for present and future organization in defense of China (and the world’s) working class. However, despite these laudable strengths, Weil’s article falls short at the level of analysis, which reflects that of political (more…)
