Chinese Workers and Their State: Adjusting to Capitalism

by Greg O'Leary

Overview

This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's reform process - labour market development, changing industrial relations, and labour-state and labour-capital conflict. It suggests that a system is emerging in China which is a form of capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765600394
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/1997
Series:	Socialism and Social Movements Series
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Job Categories and Employment Channels Among the "Floating Population" 2. The Making of the Chinese Working Class 3. Management Control of Labor in State-owned Enterprises: Cases from the Textile Industry 4. Downsizing China's State Industrial Enterprises: The Case of Baoshan Steel Works 5. Labor Relations in Foreign-funded Ventures, Chinese Trade Unions and the Prospects for Collective Bargaining 6. Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Foreign Capital

Editorial Reviews

Six contributions address aspects of industrial and labor reform in China and their attendant social outcomes, including the phenomenon of laborers leaving the security and poverty of their rural lifestyles in search of urban prosperity; labor policy changes and their impact on various sectors of employment; transformations in state-owned textile plants; reforms at the Baoshan Iron and Steelworks; the predatory behavior of Asian foreign-invested firms and the working conditions in them; and the impact of foreign capital on the All China Federation of Trade Unions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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