Striking To Survive: Factory Relocations and Workers Resistance in China's Pearl River Delta

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In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along Chinas southeastern coast, countless so-called migrant workers or peasant workers from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle, they have gradually established a foothold as part of Chinas new industrial working class.

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Fan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical, Factory Stories, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China, documenting their lives, work, and struggles.