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4 - Politicization of Labor Discontent and Blame Attribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2023

Sungmin Rho
Affiliation:
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
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Chapter 4 is an examination of workers’ blame attribution, looking at when workers direct their grievances to the central government vis-`a-vis other actors. It demonstrates that migrant workers’ social grievances about limited upward mobility, income inequality, and unfairness grow as they gain experience as migrants. While atomized protests focus on economic grievances pertaining to a specific job, the empirical analyses of survey data show that social grievances pose a bigger threat to the regime, since they change the direction of blame attribution. Protest participants are less likely to blame the central government than nonparticipants, which could imply that those that blame the central government might not be interested in atomized protests.

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Atomized Incorporation
Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise
, pp. 95 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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