Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: his summer marks the second anniversary of the failed unionisation drive at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology factory, an episode in China's recent history of labour activism that has drawn massive attention from China observers, leftist circles, and media pundits around the world.Compared with other influential instances of contentious labour action in recent years, the Jasic struggle is unique for its militant and combative tactics (including the staging of protests in front of a police station), the prominent role played by young leftist students in solidarity actions, the highly political and Maoist rhetoric, and the unusually harsh and wide-ranging crackdown Leninists in a Chinese Factory:Reflections on the Jasic Labour Organising Strategy Lenin.PC: Enrico Sola.Led by Maoist activists, in the summer of 2018, a unionisation drive at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd led to high-profile confrontation with the employer and the state.This essay examines the decade-long labour organising strategy implemented by the Maoist activists behind the struggle.The making of this strategy was a cause for admiration, but its shortcomings hold equally important lessons for China's labour movement in the future.
Source: Made in China Journal
Author: Yueran Zhang
Language: English
Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4241465684