Gilded Age : Made in China Yearbook 2017.

Intro -- Gilded Age -- Briefs Jan-Dec 2017 -- Balancing Acts: Class and Precarity in Contemporary China -- A Genealogy of Precarity and Its Ambivalence -- Work Precarisation and New Inequalities -- Making Class and Place in Contemporary China -- Class and Precarity in China -- From Dormitory System to Conciliatory Despotism -- The Precarity of Layoffs and State Compensation -- Collective Bargaining in China is Dead: The Situation is Excellent -- Collective Bargaining or Universal Basic Income -- Counting Contention -- Migrants, Mass Arrest, and Resistance in Contemporary China -- Borderless: Chinese Labour in Global Perspective -- Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe -- Liquid Labourscape -- Outsourcing Exploitation -- Trade Union Reform in One-Party States -- Prospects for US-China Union Relations in the Era of Xi and Trump -- #iSlaveat10 -- Treating What Ails the Study of Chinese Politics -- Fare thee well: The End of Chinese Civil Society? -- Conceptual Confusion in the Research on Chinese Civil Society -- China's Social Organisations after the Charity Law -- The Rise of Foundations -- What Future is there for Human Rights Lawyering in China? -- The Mental Health Costs of Repression -- Snapshots of China's 'Uncivil Society' -- Slaving Away -- The Good Earth: Chinese Environment and the Commons -- A Water Commons in China? -- Amateurism and Our Common Concern for Biodiversity -- Commons and the Right to the City in Contemporary China -- Burning Coal in Tangshan -- Protecting Sacred Commons -- China's Environmental Crackdown -- Window on Asia -- In the Absence of a Peasantry, What, Then, Is a Hong Kong Farmer? -- Burmese Civil Society Challenges China's Development Assistance in Myanmar -- Boom or Bust in China's Jade Trade with Myanmar? -- Indian Labour Movements under Modi -- In the Shadow of Kem Ley -- Work of Arts.

Ai Weiwei's #Refugees -- Ren Hang -- Losing the World -- Datong, Forever in Limbo -- China's Industrial Heritage without History -- Industrial Landscapes of Socialist Realism -- Collecting the Red Era in Contemporary China -- Resurrecting the Dead -- Contributor Bios -- Bibliography.

This Yearbook traces the stark new 'gilded age' inaugurated by the Chinese Communist Party. It does so through a collection of more than 40 original essays on labour, civil society and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

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