Mao Zedong and Workers: The Labour Movement in Hunan Province, 1920-23

This title was first published in 1982:  Mao Zedong, a man whose name has become inseparably linked with peasant revolution, actually began his career as a Communist in an apparently orthodox way, as an organizer of urban labor. A study charting Maos' background, his influence in the beginnings of the labor movement, a number of significant worker's strikes and conclusions.