Putting Class in Its Place

"Most of the contributors to this volume have published books on workers in East Asia. For readers familiar with these studies, these chapters extend the work. They will also be useful for readers who only wish to sample the growing literature on the lives and struggles of workers during industrialization in the region.... Some of the chapters, particularly those by Koo and Gates, should be required reading in all sociology courses dealing with East Asia."—Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong, Pacific Affairs

"A very talented group of authors has produced a rich set of eight papers....Taken together these contributions help to dispel any notion of the uniformity of the nature and experience of working class life in East Asian societies....Future writing about workers throughout East Asia will refer to this book as an important benchmark."—Martin King Whyte, China Quarterly

"One of the strengths of this volume derives from the diversity of its contributors, who represent an array of social science disciplines encompassing history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and women's studies, and, as such, bring to their research divergent methodologies and theoretical frameworks....Putting Class in Its Place is a pioneering work, and, as a consequence, it raises more questions than it answers. It is, moreover, a pathbreaking achievement that deserves to be read not just by those interested in labor issues in East Asia but by those who are interested in questions of worker identity in a generally comparative context."—Jeanne L. Wilson, Wheaton College, China Review International