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Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism
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Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism Hardcover - 2007

by Eddy U


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This book offers a new interpretation of socialism and its failure in the last century, and takes on the conventional view that socialist China and other Soviet-type societies represented the domination of bureaucracy. Using a wealth of original archival sources, interview data, and comparative material, Eddy U argues that these societies were not bureaucratic enough. The ruling regimes established a form of workplace administration that is the antithesis of modern bureaucratic organization. Because the workplace lacked rational rules and practices, Soviet-type societies were marred by technical inefficiency, political resentment, and social friction. But U does not merely expose workplace disorganization in Soviet-type societies; his theoretically and empirically grounded research raises questions about the contention that socialism has been proven unworkable. He concludes that strengthening the rational capacity of the state may still be the key to improving social and economic justice.

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  • Title Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism
  • Author Eddy U
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
  • Date 2007-06-28
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804756891 / 0804756899
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.34 x 0.86 in (22.94 x 16.10 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Expertise, Socialism - China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007001252
  • Dewey Decimal Code 335.434

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 169

About the author

Eddy U teaches in the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.
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