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      Will Chinese ICT workers unite? new signs of change in the aftermath of the global economic crisis

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            This paper contextualises and assesses the escalation and evolution of labour activism during the 2008 global economic crisis in China. It argues that both new incentives and new impediments to labour activism have arisen in the midst of broader changes in the labour market, the official trade union, and regional production networks. The recent trend of spatial and technical restructuring of China's ICT sector, as induced simultaneously by capital's self-initiated transformation of the modes of accumulation and by the governmental need to sustain China's economic growth, is likely to generate a sizeable reshuffling of labour markets and to reconstitute working-class experiences across regional, industrial, and educational segmentations.

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            Journal ID (doi): 10.13169
            Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob
            Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN (Print): 1745641X
            ISSN (Electronic): 17456428
            Publication date (Print): Autumn 2010
            Volume: 4
            Issue: 2
            Pages: 60-79
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            Publisher ID: workorgalaboglob.4.2.0060
            DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.4.2.0060
            SO-VID: 2215dc53-d248-4f41-8fb8-b2c4a09a0632
            Copyright © © Yu Hong, 2010
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