Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The Condition of the Working Class in China

On the Managing Globalization blog, Daniel Altman has a Q&A with Zhang Rongde, a migrant worker in a Chinese shoe factory. One can find some parallels between the conditions he describes and those faced by American workers as the country industrialized in the late 19th century. America responded with the reforms of the progressive era. Does China have a Robert LaFollette? And if they do, is he in jail? A good student of Marxism (i.e. not the current Chinese leadership) might think China is long overdue for a "Bourgeois revolution."

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