Editorial Essay
Book Launch & Lecture Tour
- Published
- August 28, 2024
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- 1 min read

Join Immanuel Ness for a series of upcoming discussions on the arguments at the heart of Dialectics of Chinese Labor.
Dialectics of Chinese Labor: Trade Unions under Market Socialism is now available open access from Brill. To mark the launch, I will be speaking at a series of universities and labor institutes over the coming months.
The talks will focus on the book's central argument: that the Chinese labor regime is neither the state-capitalist caricature of Western liberal accounts nor a finished socialist project, but a contested, dialectical arrangement whose outcome depends on the balance of forces inside the country.
Dates and venues will be posted here as they are confirmed. If you would like to host a talk or arrange a reading group, please use the contact page.
About the Author
Immanuel Ness is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg and author of Dialectics of Chinese Labor.