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Tech Worker Organizing in China: A New Model for Workers Battling a Repressive State

Tech Worker Organizing in China: A New Model for Workers Battling a Repressive State ©Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland. www.chappatte.com China Today: Capitalism for the Masses New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(2) 52 –59 Tech Worker Organizing in Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: China: A New Model for Workers sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org DOI: 10.1177/1095796020916201 / Battling a Repressive State journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Kevin Lin Keywords China, labor, tech workers, labor organizing, online mobilization In March 2019, an online mobilization by growing in militancy. The past fifteen years in Chinese tech workers spurred a national discus- particular have seen intense labor organizing sion about the normalization of overwork and that is almost entirely independent of the labor labor exploitation. The campaign-style, decen- officialdom of the government-aligned All- tralized tech worker organizing, coordinated by China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). workers across companies and regions, indicates The ACFTU, an extension of China’s state the potential of a new type of labor organizing in bureaucracy, represents state interests at the China. As the worker center organizing model, grassroots level and monopolizes labor repre- which is adapted to organizing industrial work- sentation nationally. It serves to carry out the ers, becomes increasingly unsustainable due to government’s labor campaigns and policies, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Tech Worker Organizing in China: A New Model for Workers Battling a Repressive State

New Labor Forum , Volume 29 (2): 8 – May 1, 2020

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© 2020, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York
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1095-7960
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10.1177/1095796020916201
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©Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland. www.chappatte.com China Today: Capitalism for the Masses New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(2) 52 –59 Tech Worker Organizing in Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: China: A New Model for Workers sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org DOI: 10.1177/1095796020916201 / Battling a Repressive State journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Kevin Lin Keywords China, labor, tech workers, labor organizing, online mobilization In March 2019, an online mobilization by growing in militancy. The past fifteen years in Chinese tech workers spurred a national discus- particular have seen intense labor organizing sion about the normalization of overwork and that is almost entirely independent of the labor labor exploitation. The campaign-style, decen- officialdom of the government-aligned All- tralized tech worker organizing, coordinated by China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). workers across companies and regions, indicates The ACFTU, an extension of China’s state the potential of a new type of labor organizing in bureaucracy, represents state interests at the China. As the worker center organizing model, grassroots level and monopolizes labor repre- which is adapted to organizing industrial work- sentation nationally. It serves to carry out the ers, becomes increasingly unsustainable due to government’s labor campaigns and policies,

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New Labor ForumSAGE

Published: May 1, 2020

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