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A fascinating, intimate window onto China’s intensifying youth employment crisis
China’s hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an antisocial work culture, forms of passive resistance have become endemic.
Through conversations with young workers from across China, the Gonglao Collective paints a haunting picture of involution’s chokehold on young lives.
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The Gonglao Collective is the single most important source of information and analysis about workers and labor struggles in China.
Eli Friedman is a leading scholar of Chinese labor politics based at Cornell University. His previous books include The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City (Columbia 2022) and Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell 2014).
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