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020			_a9781108430418 (paperback)
082			_a323.040951 _bFU
100			_aFu, Diana
245			_aMobilizing without the masses : _bcontrol and contention in China / _cDiana Fu.
260			_aCambridge : _b Cambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_axiii, 196 pages _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 2941.00
505			_a1. Introduction: organizing under duress - Part I. Technologies of Control: 2. Labor organizations in China - 3. Fragmented control - 4. Competitive control - Part II. Coaching Contention: 5. Micro-collective action - 6. Atomized action - 7. Discursive action 8. A political compromise? Appendix: political ethnography - Bibliography.
520			_aWhen advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobilizing without the masses - that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world's most powerful authoritarian state.
650			_aPolitical participation China.
650			_aSocial movements China.
650			_aCivil society China.
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