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The Power of Place

Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay

By: Mark W. Frazier

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The Power of Place

Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay

By: Mark W. Frazier

Frazier's comparative study of popular protest in twentieth-century Shanghai and Mumbai highlights recurring debates over migration and citizenship.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108481310

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9781108481311

The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace

State, Revolution, and Labor Management

By: Mark W. Frazier

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The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace

State, Revolution, and Labor Management

By: Mark W. Frazier

State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central institution in Chinese politics emerged over the course of various crises that swept through China's industrial sector prior to and after revolution in 1949. Frazier explores critical phases in the expansion of the Chinese state during the middle third of the twentieth century to reveal how different labour institutions reflected state power. While the 'iron rice bowl' is usually seen as an outgrowth of Communist labour policy, Frazier's account shows that is has longer historical roots. As a product of the Chinese state, the iron rice bowl's dismantling in the 1990s has raised sensitive issues about the way in which the contemporary Chinese state exerts control over urban industrial society. This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.

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306

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Cambridge University Press

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1139432230

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9781139432238

Socialist Insecurity

Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China

By: Mark W. Frazier

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Socialist Insecurity

Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China

By: Mark W. Frazier

Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government's largest expenditures. Despite this, only about fifty million citizens—one-third of the country's population above the age of sixty—receive pensions. Combined with the growing and increasingly violent unrest over inequalities brought about by China's reform model, the escalating costs of an aging society have brought the Chinese political leadership to a critical juncture in its economic and social policies. In Socialist Insecurity, Mark W. Frazier explores pension policy in the People's Republic of China, arguing that the government's push to expand pension and health insurance coverage to urban residents and rural migrants has not reduced, but rather reproduced, economic inequalities. He explains this apparent paradox by analyzing the decisions of the political actors responsible for pension reform: urban officials and state-owned enterprise managers. Frazier shows that China's highly decentralized pension administration both encourages the "grabbing hand" of local officials to collect large amounts of pension and other social insurance revenue and compels redistribution of these revenues to urban pensioners, a crucial political constituency. More broadly, Socialist Insecurity shows that the inequalities of welfare policy put China in the same quandary as other large uneven developers—countries that have succeeded in achieving rapid growth but with growing economic inequalities. While most explanations of the formation and expansion of welfare states are derived from experience in today's mature welfare systems, developing countries such as China, Frazier argues, provide new terrain to explore how welfare programs evolve, who drives the process, and who sees the greatest benefit.

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Cornell University Press

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080145736X

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9780801457364

The Forgotten Dead

The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day

By: Ken Small,Mark Rogerson

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The Forgotten Dead

The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day

By: Ken Small,Mark Rogerson

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings. This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world. This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man's curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472834569

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9781472834560

The Power of Place

Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay

By: Mark W. Frazier

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The Power of Place

Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay

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Frazier's comparative study of popular protest in twentieth-century Shanghai and Mumbai highlights recurring debates over migration and citizenship.

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Socialist Insecurity

Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China

By: Mark W. Frazier

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Socialist Insecurity

Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China

By: Mark W. Frazier

In Socialist Insecurity, Mark W. Frazier explores pension policy in the People's Republic of China, arguing that the government's push to expand pension and health insurance coverage to urban residents and rural migrants has not reduced inequality.

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The Power of Place

The Power of Place

The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace

The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace

Socialist Insecurity

Socialist Insecurity

The Forgotten Dead

The Forgotten Dead

The Power of Place

The Power of Place

Socialist Insecurity

Socialist Insecurity

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