tivity in that constitutes embryonic civil society in China. Students, other intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and various kinds of workers have very different goals. Temporary workers protesting their situation had little in common with those workers who had secure positions. And if secure workers saw student protests as leading toward more extensive changes in the state control of production "the prospect of an economic reform that might well threaten their rice bowl was anything but reassuring" (Perry, "Labor's Battle" 317). The workers were more interested in such matters as the growth of inflation, the gap between wealthy leaders and the people, price stabilization and wage increases (Perry and Fuller 670). Despite the unwelcoming attitude of the students, however, the protests at Tiananmen Square did feature "a complex and rather unorganized array of intellectuals, private entrepreneurs and young managers, urban workers and younger party members, State employees, and members of a number of State and party organs in charge of macroeconomic work"
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