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Category: Labor

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Labor/Museums/Public History

Is the Shanghai Textile Museum the best museum in China?

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

The Shanghai Textile Museum 上海纺织博物馆 150 Aomen Rd; 澳門路150号(right near the M50 art district) is not one of the most famous museums in China. Lonely Planet dismiss...

China/Labor/Sino-Japanese Wars/Social History/visual culture

Celebrate the working class

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, today is Labor Day in the U.S.A., which means that you can celebrate the achievements of the working class without being a Communist. The rest of the world,...

Articles/China/Labor/Teaching

China on the move

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I found a nice paper on migration inside China from Vox 1 They look at migrations inside China, and find a lot of things that you would expect. Network effects ...

Books/China/Labor/Qing/Teaching

Grading exams in Late Imperial China

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As finals week is here for many of us I thought this would be a good time to dip into Benjamin Elman’s A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Im...

Books/China/English/Labor

Flithy Asians

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One of my colleagues recently passed on his copy of The Far East by James H. Maurer Sentinel Printing, 1912. The author says that the book is not the product of...

China/English/Labor/Republican

Chinese in the Great War

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As it is 11/11 Blood and Treasure has a nice post up on Chinese laborers along with a link with lots of great pics. B&T suggests that Chinese laborers in th...

English/Japanese/Labor/War/昭和

佐々木啓 – 戦時期日本における国民徴用援護事業の展開過程

Posted on December 22, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I just saw the table of contents for the December issue of 『歴史学研究』 and noticed that Frog in a Well contributor Sasaki Kei (see his postings here) has published ...

1970s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Labor/Politics

KTX female attendants – “contingent labour” fights back

Posted on July 16, 2007 by noja / 4 Comments

There was a time in Korean labour movement history in the 1970s when it were the female workers who actually led the most militant part of the struggle. The rea...

China/Diaspora/English/Labor/Post-Mao

It's not a direct flight

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

An account of how one Chinese migrant got to Italy, from Pieke et. al Transnational Chinese I got out of China with an official passport. A fake one. I mean it ...

China/English/Labor/Post-Mao

Protests and the public sphere

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

  Every society has its own traditions of protest, things that people can do that will get them attention and hopefully enable them to get redress for thei...

Economic/General/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Sell yourself

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

“Selling yourself” – one of those phrases we use in a somewhat metaphorical sense, but which nonetheless has a more literal meaning than we pr...

China/Economics/General/Labor/Post-Mao

Getting the Chinese to work hard

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

NYT has an article on American firms’ opposition to new Chinese labor laws. China has been pushing unionization of foreign firms, forcing even Wal-mart to...

Books/China/Economics/General/Labor/Post-Mao

The more things change

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

An article by Teh-Wei Hu on the politics of smoking in China. This is a subject I have some interest in, and I was not surprised to see that very little has cha...

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