Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism

China's leaders have designated ICT as a strategic industry in their state-led effort to carve out a stronger position in the global economy. This dissertation situates China's ICT development in terms of the interplay between these broad transnational trends and domestic policies and institutional arrangements. This dissertation specifically highlights the centrality of Chinese labor in this context. Shifting class relations and identities in the ICT industry comprise a sensitive and portentous field; my dissertation probes the social, political and historical construction of the labor market and managerial practices in the ICT sector, as well as practices and subjectivities of contemporary Chinese ICT workers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Hong, Yu

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schiller, Dan

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3337794

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86596