Involution: A Worker Inquiry Amid China's Youth Unemployment Wave - Couverture souple

Gonglao Collective

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1836742959 ISBN 13 : 9781836742951

Editeur : Verso Books, 2026

Synopsis

A fascinating, intimate window onto China’s intensifying youth employment crisis

China’s hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an antisocial work culture, forms of passive resistance have become endemic.

Through conversations with young workers from across China, the Gonglao Collective paints a haunting picture of involution’s chokehold on young lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Gonglao Collective is the single most important source of information and analysis about workers and labor struggles in China.

Eli Friedman is a leading scholar of Chinese labor politics based at Cornell University. His previous books include The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City (Columbia 2022) and Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell 2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1836742959
• ISBN 13: 9781836742951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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