Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China

by Jie Yang

Book Overview

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453755
• ISBN13: 9780801453755
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher