INSURGENCY TRAP -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Labor Politics and Capitalist Industrialization -- 2. The History and Structure of the ACFTU -- 3. Guangzhou: At the Forefront of Union Reform? -- 4. Oligarchic Decommodification? Sectoral Unions...

Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China's Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how post-socialist unions respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China. While Zhejiang has had relative success in...