Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry.

Here, worker representatives and trade unions were heavily dominated by supervisors, who sided with management to suppress workers. Shanghai workers were able to enjoy some improvements under the new regime while the Wuxi workers barely experienced any changes. Cliver points out that, unlike the Party-state's official labor history and scholarly studies, which assert that the labor movement was led by Communists, this was not the case in the silk industry, where there were too few Communists to organize workers. [Extracted from the article]

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