The study of knowledge workers is one of the most popular subfields of political economy in communication research today. With their numbers growing dramatically in developing countries, knowledge workers are playing an increasingly important role in labour movements globally. Focusing on China's publishing industry, Jianhua Yao's Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China presents a panoramic view of the challenges confronting media workers, particularly editors, in China. The book aims to address four interrelated questions: 1) What changes have occurred in the labour process of Chinese media workers, especially editors? 2) How do we understand these changes in the context of China's media reform as well as social transformation? 3) What are the impacts of technological innovations and China's integration to global capitalism on Chinese editors? 4) How are Chinese media workers responding to their deteriorating working environments today?
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