[ecrea] NEW BOOK: Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy, of Economic Development

In *Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic
Development*, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving
political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and
the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China's ICT
development over the last thirty years at the intersection of transnational
trends, domestic policies, and institutional arrangements, Hong shows how
evolving class relations in the ICT sector are shaped by and shaping the
transnational capitalist dynamics and domestic socio-economic
transformations. She goes on to argue that the huge and still expanding
pool of Chinese ICT workers and their newly attained identities-as wage
labor rather than consumers-constitute a missing but important dimension of
human experiences of the rise of the "information society."

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINESE ICT DEVELOPMENT IN THE
GLOBALIZATION ERA
Chapter 3: THE COMPOSITION OF ICT WORKFORCES AND ITS INDICATIONS OF CHINA'S
DEVELOPMENTAL STRATEGY
Chapter 4: PROCUREMENT, MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE
Chapter 5: PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS: BETWEEN LIVED
EXPERIENCES AND PAST MEMORIES
Chapter 6: WILL CHINESE ICT WORKERS UNITE?-NEW SIGNS OF CHANGE IN THE
AFTERMANTH OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Chapter 7: CONCLUSION: SITES, POSSIBILITIES, AND UNCERTAINTIES OF REVISING
THE ICT-DRIVEN NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT IN 2008 ADN AFTERChapter 8
METHODOLOGICAL APPENDICES
Chapter 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Yu Hong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication&  Journalism
University of Southern California
3502 Watt Way  | Los Angeles, CA  | 90089
(213) 740.0470


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