[English] – On July 7, 2025, Asian Labour Review published two related papers written by Samia Dinkelaker and Ralf Ruckus. The first one, Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour: An Overview, shortly describes distinct phases of that regime and serves as a summary of the second paper: Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour: Timeline of Changes, a detailed chronology of state regulations, migrant protests, local support, and other important events from the mid-1980s to the present.
Tag: labor unrest
[English] – On April 8, 2023, Jacobin published an abridged extract from The Left in China: A Political Cartography (Pluto Press, 2023) by Ralf Ruckus: Chinese Workers Are Facing Escalating Repression.
[english] – This podcast is part of the online discussion series China and the Left. To listen to the podcast, click here.
[english] – This podcast is part of the online discussion series China and the Left. To listen to the podcast, click here.
[english] – This podcast is part of the online discussion series China and the Left. To listen to the podcast, click here.
[english] – The online discussion series "China and the Left – Critical Analysis & Grassroots Activism" brings together activists and researchers with a left-wing perspective in order to shed more light on China’s changed role in the world as well as on the social conflicts and mobilizations in the country. The four events in September 2020 cover the topics EU-China-relations, the Hong Kong protest movement, feminism and queer activism, and recent labor unrest and organizing in China. For details and registration see this gongchao-page.