Regional political economy and labor reform -- The roots of unemployment and the political economy of lay-offs -- Remaking China's urban welfare and labor market policies -- Pathways to re-employment -- Contention, protest, and social order -- Conclusion

The government of inequalities : critique of neoliberal insecurity -- The dynamics of the political event : micropolitics and the process of subjectification -- Economic and subjective impoverishment under neoliberalism -- Appendix 1: Kafka and the production of culpability -- Appendix 2: Kafka,...