How China works : perspectives on the twentieth-century industrial workplace / edited by Jacob Eyferth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

China works : perspectives on the twentieth-century workplace / Jacob Eyferth -- Village industries and the making of rural-urban difference in early twentieth-century Shanxi / Henrietta Harrison -- Socialist deskilling : the struggle over skills in a rural craft industry, 1949-1965 / Jacob Eyferth -- Commanding heights industrialization and wage determination in the Chinese factory, 1950-1957 / Mark W. Frazier -- Industrial involution : recruitment development within the railway system / Lida Junghans -- Serving the state, serving the people : work in a post-socialist department store / Amy Hanser -- Capital's incorporation of labor rights and corporate codes of conduct in a Chinese dormitory labor regime / Pun Ngai -- Work, conformity, and defiance : strategies of resistance and control in China's township and village enterprises / Calvin Chen -- Labor on the "floating native land" : a case study of seafarers on PRC ocean-going ships / Minghua Zhao.