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Agents of change or status quo? : The survival and development of labor NGOs in South China

Pan, Darcy LU (2017)
Abstract
This article explores the dynamics of state control and specific workings of state power by ethnographically examining the ways in which Chinese grassroots labor NGOs negotiate and gauge the unclear parameters permitted by the Chinese state in South China. By closely examining the everyday activism at the margins of the Chinese state, I argue that the uncertainty about the limits of the state’s tolerance for activism induces compliance and self-censorship from the labor NGOs and thus sustains the political order of things.
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Uncertain Times : Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World - Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World
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Durrenberger, E. Paul
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University Press of Colorado
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  • scopus:85038256078
ISBN
978-1-60732-631-1
978-1-60732-630-4
978-1-60732-665-6
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English
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  author       = {{Pan, Darcy}},
  booktitle    = {{Uncertain Times : Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World}},
  editor       = {{Durrenberger, E. Paul}},
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  title        = {{Agents of change or status quo? : The survival and development of labor NGOs in South China}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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