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The Cambridge History of Communism
  • Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present
  • Edited by Juliane Fürst, Silvio Pons, Mark Selden
  • Published online:
    28 September 2017
    Print publication:
    21 September 2017
  • The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetration. Beneath the surface, profound political, social, economic and cultural changes were occurring in the socialist and former socialist countries, resulting in the collapse and transformations of the existing socialist order and the changing parameters of world Marxism. This volume draws on innovative research to bring together history from above and below, including social, cultural, gender, and transnational history to transcend the old separation between Communist studies and the broader field of contemporary history.

  • 15 - The Politics of Global Production: Apple, Foxconn and China's New Working Class

  • from Modular Governance
  • Edited by Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Sandip Sarkar
  • Book:
    Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia
    Published online:
    23 July 2017
    Print publication:
    11 July 2016, pp 353-376

  • Summary

    Introduction

    The magnitude of Apple's commercial success is paralleled by, and based upon, the scale of production in its supply chain factories, the most important of them located in Asia (Apple, 2012a, p. 7). As the principal manufacturer of products and components for Apple, Taiwanese company Foxconn currently employs 1.4 million workers in China alone. Arguably, then, just as Apple has achieved a globally dominant position, described as ‘the world's most valuable brand’ (Brand Finance Global 500, 2013), so too have the fortunes of Foxconn been entwined with Apple's success, facilitating Foxconn's rise to become the world's largest electronics contractor (Dinges, 2010). This chapter explores the contradictions between capital and labour in the context of the global production chains of the consumer electronics industry. Drawing on concepts from the Global Commodity Chains and Global Value Chain frameworks (Gereffi and Korzeniewicz, 1994; Bair, 2005; Gereffi et al., 2005), the article analyses the power dynamics of the buyer-driven supply chain and the national terrains that mediate or even accentuate global pressures.

    The principal focus is on labour in the electronics supply chain, including working conditions and labour as agency, consistent with recent studies of labour as the key element in global production chains or networks (McKay, 2006; Smith et al., 2006; Taylor and Bain, 2008; Webster et al., 2008; Taylor et al., 2013). In particular, the concentration of capital in China and the important roles played by Asian contractors open up new terrains of labour struggle (Silver, 2003; Appelbaum, 2008; Silver and Zhang, 2009). This inquiry evaluates the incentives for Apple to outsource and to concentrate production in a small number of final-assembly facilities in China. It also examines the potential risks or disincentives that might compel Apple to respond more directly, or responsibly, to negative publicity surrounding labour conditions and the collective actions of workers in its supply chain. While the specific detail is concerned with the interaction between Apple and Foxconn, the article briefly considers the relationship between other buyers (e.g., Dell) and contractors (e.g., Pegatron). Consequently, it locates emergent labour struggles more broadly in the electronics sector as a whole.

  • 19 - East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century

  • from Part IV - World regions
  • Edited by J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
    Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    30 April 2015, pp 493-525

  • Summary

    Long analyzed as biopolitics, the regulation of population always entailed geopolitics as well, although tracing the connections and separations of these strands across time, and across political cultures, is not easy. To appreciate the many dimensions of population in world history, a new approach is needed; something like an integrated and global gendered political economy of population. Considered at a global level, the eighteenth and nineteenth-century expansion of Europe was both demographic and geographic. The politics of fertility decline as it played out in international and racial relations has received much historical analysis, and within many different national traditions. The fertility decline has been read as depopulation. Imperial German scholars and statesmen had been deeply interested in population density, overpopulation, before and during the First World War. European demographic history was the main focus for European and non-European economists, both the massive population growth of the nineteenth century and the localized fertility declines.

  • The Origins and Social Consequences of China's Hukou System*

  • Tiejun Cheng, Mark Selden
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 139 / September 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2009, pp. 644-668
    Print publication:
    September 1994

  • Throughout the 1950s China implemented a code of laws, regulations and programmes whose effect was formally to differentiate residential groups as a means to control population movement and mobility and to shape state developmental priorities. The hukou system, which emerged in the course of a decade, was integral to the collective transformation of the countryside, to a demographic strategy that restricted urbanization, and to the redefinition of city-countryside and state-society relations. This article offers a documentary study tracing the origins and development of the hukou system of population registration and control, and scrutinizes its relationship to a host of connected institutions, for clues to understanding distinctive features of China's developmental trajectory and social structure in the era of mobilizational collectivism. It considers the farreaching social consequences of the hukou system with particular attention to its implications for the creation of spatial hierarchies, especially its consequences for defining the position of villagers in the Chinese social system.

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