The Chinese Worker After Socialism
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The Chinese Worker After Socialism
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Author : William Hurst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Chinese Worker After Socialism written by William Hurst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Government business enterprises categories.
Socialism Is Great
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Author : Lijia Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-04-27
Socialism Is Great written by Lijia Zhang and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant minature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution as the country moved from one of stark repression to a vibrant capitalist economy.
Livelihood Struggles And Market Reform
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Author : Ching Kwan Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Livelihood Struggles And Market Reform written by Ching Kwan Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
The surge of China as the workshop of the world has been founded on, among other things, a fundamental restructuring of the labour force. Massive unemployment in the state industrial sector is taking place simultaneously with momentous migration of peasants into global factories. Both the unmaking and the making of the Chinese working class are heavily shaped by the state. This paper traces the historical evolution of core changes in Chinese labour reform and worker entitlements: from the introduction of labour contracts to the promulgation of a national labour law, the demolition of work-unit socialism and its replacement with a national social security system. I also examine workers' livelihood struggles in response to this epochal transformation. The central problem for Chinese workers is not the new labour and welfare systems, but the wide discrepancies between the stipulation and the implementation of these new policies. The institutional source of these gaps, this paper argues, lies in two contradictions inherent in the strategy of Chinese reform. Firstly, the imperative to rely on local accumulation to fuel marketization clashes with the imperative to maintain legitimacy by providing a basic level of justice and welfare for the most disadvantaged. Local state agents are more interested in the former than the latter, especially when they can count on central government financial intervention to maintain social stability. The second contradiction in Chinese reform that is conducive to uneven protection of labour rights has to do with the illiberal nature of the Chinese legal system. The state uses the law as a means of controlling society, while allowing itself to remain mostly unrestrained by the law. When it is not in the interest of the local officials to enforce labour regulations, there is hardly enough countervailing authority-from the judiciary, for instance-to preserve the sanctity of the law. The result is that many workers, on seeing their legal rights and entitlements unjustly denied, and pressured by livelihood needs, become politically restive. Sharp increases of labour conflicts are accompanied by proliferation of labour activism, taking both conventional (that is, petition, labour arbitration and litigation) and unconventional (that is, protests, marches and road blockage) forms. The state has responded with measured mixes of concessions and repression. Economic and livelihood demands are recognized and, in many cases, at least partially answered by swift financial compensation doled out by the central or provincial governments. On the other hand, political demands such as those relating to the removal of officials and cross-factory actions are relentlessly suppressed and harshly punished. Protests notwithstanding, the Chinese Government has ardently pressed ahead with social security reform, targeting problem areas such as pension arrears, unpaid wages, unemployment benefits and medical insurance. Additional, earmarked funds are funneled from Beijing to provincial coffers to deal with social grievances that may erupt into social instability. There are also plans to systematically institutionalize the provision of legal aid to people who fall below a particular income level. Therefore, the Chinese state has responded to popular demands, if only slowly and selectively. Finally, both migrant workers and state workers are not totally dispossessed or proletarianized. Rural land rights for peasant migrants and private home ownership for state sector workers have functioned as safety valves to sooth the effects of massive unemployment and diabolical exploitation. Women in the two segments of the working-class examined here do face gender-specific difficulties. The disappearance of enterprise-based welfare means more demands put on the family unit to provide service and financial support. These domestic burdens are still borne predominantly by women. Also, women are among the first to be let go when enterprises restructure by down-sizing the workforce. Facing gendered disadvantages in the labour market, and under a welfare-entitlement regime based on employment rather than universal citizenship, female workers are likely to fall through the cracks of the new social safety net. The male bias in socialist allocation of housing in the past has inadvertently undermined women's opportunities to become homeowners when work units began privatizing welfare housing in the reform period. For young female migrants toiling in global factories, the lack of maternity benefits forces them to truncate their factory careers to give birth and take care of children and elderly kin. Recent legal changes in land use rights have the potential to encroach on women's equal access to land use, with grave long-term implications for female migrant workers' livelihood security. However, gender bias does not begin to capture the plight of millions of Chinese workers during the reform period. Middle-aged workers in the state sector, whether male or female, confront age discrimination, and migrant workers of both genders suffer from their caste-like status of being a rural resident. Unpaid wages and pensions will continue to plague the lives of both men and women in the working class, for as long as the legal system and the government fail to enforce the Labour Law.
The Chinese Worker In The Nighties
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Author : Sheila Oakley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Chinese Worker In The Nighties written by Sheila Oakley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with China categories.
Workers Democracy In China S Transition From State Socialism
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Author : Stephen E. Philion
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Workers Democracy In China S Transition From State Socialism written by Stephen E. Philion and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by privatization oriented policies in China today. By the 1990s, this discourse was being deployed by the state in an effort to minimize the social obligations of the Party and enterprise to state workers and to win the latter over to faith in markets. Philion reveals that Chinese workers have recently engaged this discourse in order to do something they never envisioned having to do: fight for what Chinese state socialism had always promised them as the ‘masters of the factory’, namely the right to a job and basic social security.
Workers And Workplaces In Revolutionary China
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Author : Stephen Andors
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-14
Workers And Workplaces In Revolutionary China written by Stephen Andors and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-14 with Social Science categories.
Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China collates documents detailing the conflict and politics of Chinese industrial development in the 1970s. Originally published in 1974, issues discussed in this volume include socialism, the harbour docks in china and tobacco factory workers. This title will be of interest to students of Asian studies, anthropology and politics.
The Chinese Worker After Socialism
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Author : William Hurst
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-05
The Chinese Worker After Socialism written by William Hurst and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This fascinating study considers the fate of 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector in China.
Adjusting To Capitalism
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Author : Greg O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 1998
Adjusting To Capitalism written by Greg O'Leary and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
Comprises a collection of papers which originated at a conference in Southern China at Shanton University, Guandong Province, in December 1995. Addresses issues including labour relations and, industrial and labour reforms in China.
Migrant Labor In China
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Author : Pun Ngai
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Migrant Labor In China written by Pun Ngai and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success. But who are China's workers who keep the machine running, and how is the labor process changing under economic reform? Pun Ngai, a leading expert in factory labor in China, charts the rise of China as a world workshop and the emergence of a new labor force in the context of the post-socialist transformations of the last three decades. The book analyzes the role of the state and transnational interests in creating a new migrant workforce deprived of many rights and social protection. As China increases its output of high-value, high-tech products, particularly for its own growing domestic market of middle-class consumers, workers are increasingly voicing their discontent through strikes and protest, creating new challenges for the Party-State and the global division of labor. Blending theory, politics, and real-world examples, this book will be an invaluable guide for upper-level students and non-specialists interested in China's economy and Chinese politics and society.
Chinese Workers And Their State
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Author : Greg O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-23
Chinese Workers And Their State written by Greg O'Leary and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.