Inside China’s Automobile Factories In Inside China’s Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of auto- workers in the world’s largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of autoworkers and a deeper understanding of the roots of rising labor unrest in the auto industry. Combining original empirical data and sophisticated analysis that moves from the shop floor to national political economy and global industry dynamics, the book develops a multilayered framework for understanding how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades. Lu Zhang is an assistant professor of sociology at Temple Uni- versity. Her research concentrates on globalization, labor and labor movements, and the political economy of development in East Asia, particularly China. Her work has been published in International Labor and Working Class History and the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Manage- ment. She has contributed to five books: China & Global Governance: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (2015); Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises (2014); From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China (2011); Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its Alternatives (2011); and, China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (2009). She received the Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and the Best Dissertation Prize from the journal Labor History. She is currently researching capital relocation strategy and labor politics in China and Vietnam. www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03085-5 - Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance Lu Zhang Frontmatter More information