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The aim of this chapter is to present and discuss the two phases of empirical data elicited from 22 everyday workers in Group Two—those who had engaged in protest activities—that was deliberately collected at multiple locations, mainly through contact labor NGOs in Hong Kong and Guangzhou Province in China between 2011 and 2014.
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Leung, E. (2021). “Beyond” the Selves and Reflective Docility. In: The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class . Palgrave Debates in Business History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83313-8_4
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