>From: "steve philion" <philion at hawaii.edu>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: The Third Wave of the Chinese Labour Movement in the Post-Mao Era
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:29:09 -0500
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>http://iso.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=3D2397
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>China Labour Bulletin
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>The Third Wave of the Chinese Labour Movement in the Post-Mao Era=20
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>5 June 2002=20
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>[By Trini Leung, researcher / writer on politics and labour movements in =
>China]=20
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>Introduction=20
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>In the spring of 2002, workers who had dedicated most of their working
>lives to the industrial construction of socialist China set off the most
>significant episode in the recent history of the Chinese labour
>movement. Over 80,000 workers in northeastern China organized a
>sustained struggle to defend their livelihoods and rights. Fifty
>thousand oilfield workers from Daqing and another 30,000 workers from
>the metal and other industries in Liaoyang launched street protests,
>road blockades, pickets, sit-ins and negotiations for over three months,
>beginning in March 2002. This latest initiative marks the third wave of
>the independent labour movement in the post-Mao era.