The unmaking of the Chinese working class w/ Teemu Ruskola

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Oct 8, 202600:46:37News & Politics

Teemu Ruskola joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower'. We talked about how China's remarkable economic rise was facilitated by the st...

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