Download or read book Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State written by T. Gold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.