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Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on civil society groups pushing for reform. Why are these two seemingly clashing developments occurring simultaneously? Manfred Elfstrom uses extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis to examine both the causes and consequences of protest. The book adopts a holistic approach, encompassing national trends in worker-state relations, local policymaking processes and the dilemmas of individual officials and activists. Instead of taking sides in the old debate over whether non-democracies like China's are on the verge of collapse or have instead found ways of maintaining their power indefinitely, it explores the daily evolution of autocratic rule. While providing a uniquely comprehensive picture of change in China, this important study proposes a new model of bottom-up change within authoritarian systems more generally.
Labor disputes --- Political persecution --- Protest movements --- Labor policy --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Social movements --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Actions, Job --- Disputes, Labor --- Industrial disputes --- Job actions --- Industrial relations --- History --- Government policy --- Law and legislation
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Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of President Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign, supporting his New Deal legislation in successful Great Depression musicals like 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. But while the Warner brothers posed as exemplars of the New Deal in real life and in their movies, they were attempting to reverse Roosevelt’s policies within their studio and their industry.Using newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry. But through the manipulation of New Deal legislation, Harry and Jack Warner, along with other studio moguls, sought to curtail workers’ rights and salaries instead of bolstering both sides of the labour/management divide as they were supposed to do under NRA regulations, attempting to serve the economic pain of the Depression as much as possible onto artists and craftsmen, not owners or management. With its tales of Hollywood stars and employees fighting to win a fair share of the proceeds of their labour, the creation of the NRA code makes for an intriguing story of financial survival, political intrigue and backstabbing during the worst of the Great Depression.Key featuresContains extensive primary research on the creation of the NRA’s motion picture code, including many new insights about the processGives students of U.S. history a new and entertaining way to examine the legacy of the Great Depression, the Hollywood studio system and President Roosevelt’s New Deal programExtensive analysis of the historical significance of the Warner Bros.' Great Depression MusicalsEntertaining stories and insights about Hollywood and U.S. government figures whose names have echoed through decades of American culture and historyDemonstrates how the Warners’ aggressive attempts to solidify their industry in 1933 ironically set the stage for the eventual downfall of the Hollywood studio system in the years after World War II
Motion picture industry and state --- Motion picture industry --- Labor disputes --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Actions, Job --- Disputes, Labor --- Industrial disputes --- Job actions --- Industrial relations --- State and the motion picture industry --- State, The --- History --- Economic aspects --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- United States. --- N.R.A. (National Recovery Administration) --- National Industrial Recovery Administration (U.S.) --- National Recovery Administration (U.S.) --- NRA (National Recovery Administration) --- United States --- Politics and government --- E-books --- Warner, Harry Morris, --- Warner, Jack L., --- New Deal (1933-1939) --- 1900-1999 --- Warner, Jacob, --- Zuardo, Leon, --- Eichelbaum, John, --- Wonsal, Hirsch Moses, --- Wonskolaser, Hirsch Moses,
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