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Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China
Reform and Resistance in the Publishing Industry
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2014
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Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform, and Resistance in the Publishing Industry concentrates on the trajectories of the labor process transformation of knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and China’s integration into the global political economy.
At its core, the book addresses three different yet interrelated processes of the political economy of communication: commodification, structuration, and spatialization in the Chinese publishing industry. It examines whether worker organizations and trade unions are effective in presenting editors’ legitimate rights and interests in current publishing reform.
Through the political economic analysis of knowledge workers in China’s publishing industry, Jianhua Yao helps readers better understand the broader social and economic transformations, specifically the network of power relations and institutional contexts in which Chinese editors are situated, that have been taking place in China since the late 1970s.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8664-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8665-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
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Preface and Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 Political Economy, Media Reform, and Knowledge Workers No access Pages 17 - 38
2 The Commodification Process No access Pages 39 - 74
3 The Structuration Process No access Pages 75 - 106
4 The Spatialization Process No access Pages 107 - 126
