ABSTRACT
Workers’ democracy as a discourse in China has comprised an ideological set of ideas, beliefs, and practices that has been deployed as a means to address contradictory patterns of social relations in China’s state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector since the earliest days of the People’s Republic of China. How and when the manifold concepts and practices that fall under the category of ‘workers’ democracy’ in China were and are to this day deployed in the Chinese SOE, by whom and toward what ends are issues this book delineates and seeks to explicate. The answers help to address whether this idea has the potential to be deployed by China’s state workers to challenge or even supersede the current set of social relations of coercion that characterize China’s neoliberal turn since the 1990s.
