NEOLIBERALISM, URBANISM AND THE PLIGHT OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN CHINA by Ngai Pun, Huilin Lu

“…Through this study, we reflect on the question of neoliberalism, urbanism and the formation of a new working class in China. </p>…”
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Foregrounding Infrastructural Capitalism: The Double Logic of High-speed Rail Development and its Class Conflicts in China by Peier Chen, Ngai Pun

“…This paper underscores the infrastructural projects’ political significance in creating invisible class contradictions, particularly leading to the individual and collective actions of a wide array of affected working-class masses. It contributes to the elucidation of the dialectical relation between the geographies of capitalism and labour geographies.…”
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Injury of Class: Compressed Modernity and the Struggle of Foxconn Workers by Ngai Pun, Huipeng Zhang

“…Foxconn is a distinctive example of compressed modernity in China, which reworks the temporality and spatiality of globalized production and consumption that not only seriously affect human societies in general, but also specifically the new generation of the Chinese working class. Having grown into monopoly capital on the world market, Foxconn stands out as the new phenomenon of capital concentration and centralization, because of its speed and scale of capital accumulation in all regions of China. …”
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