Like Cattle and Horses : Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927, Paperb...

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Like Cattle and Horses : Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1, Paperback by Smith, S. A.; Gordon, Andrew (EDT); Keyssar, Alexander (EDT); James, Daniel (EDT), ISBN 0822327937, ISBN-13 9780822327936, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents&;journalistic accounts of strikes, memoirs by former activists, police records&;to argue that a nationalist movement fueled by the effects of foreign imperialism had a far greater hold on working-class identity than did class consciousness. While the massive wave of labor protest in the 1920s was principally an expression of militant nationalism rather than of class consciousness, Smith argues, elements of a precarious class identity were in turn forged by the very discourse of nationalism. By linking work-related demands to the defense of the nation, anti-imperialist nationalism legitimized participation in strikes and sensitized workers to the fact that they were worthy of better treatment as Chinese citizens. Smith shows how the workers&; refusal to be treated &;like cattle and horses&; (a phrase frequently used by workers to describe their condition) came from a new but powerfully felt sens

• Year: 1895
• ISBN: 9780822327936
• Condition: Fine

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