ABSTRACT
This chapter shows three ways in which workers have struggled for social justice: by collectively resorting to outbursts of violence, by protesting on the streets, and by seeking legal solutions. Increasingly, the authorities have come to realize that a legal system can serve as a useful mediating mechanism to resolve labor disputes and pre-empt social disturbances. It provides case study in which migrant construction workers exploded in uncontrollable anger and rose up in a riot against local police and local authorities. The chapter explores about workers at a Beijing factory owned by the People's Liberation Army had been pressured to sign one-year employment contracts that would have effectively stripped them of their jobs when the contracts expired. It defines the case of a migrant from Sichuan province who became a legal advocate for workers claiming industrial injury compensation in Guangdong province.
