10 Is Labor a Political Force in China?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. 1 Introduction: Historical Reflections on Grassroots Political Reform in China 1
6. 2 Village Elections, Transparency, and Anticorruption: Henan and Guangdong Provinces 20
7. 3 The Implementation of Village Elections and Tax-for-Fee Reform in Rural Northwest China 48
8. 4 Fiscal Crisis in China’s Townships: Causes and Consequences 75
9. 5 Direct Township Elections 97
10. 6 The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions of Accountability in Rural China 117
11. 7 Inadvertent Political Reform via Private Associations: Assessing Homeowners’ Groups in New Neighborhoods 149
12. 8 Civil Resistance and Rule of Law in China: The Defense of Homeowners’ Rights 174
13. 9 “Hope for Protection and Hopeless Choices”: Labor Legal Aid in the PRC 196
14. 10 Is Labor a Political Force in China? 228
15. 11 Between Defiance and Obedience: Protest Opportunism in China 253
16. 12 In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Politics in Northwest Yunnan 282
17. 13 Public Opinion Supervision: Possibilities and Limits of the Media in Constraining Local Officials 300
18. Notes 327
19. Contributors 399
20. Harvard Contemporary China Series 401