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Workers and Change in China
Author | : Manfred Elfstrom |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108926347 |
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Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on civil society groups pushing for reform. Why are these two seemingly clashing developments occurring simultaneously? Manfred Elfstrom uses extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis to examine both the causes and consequences of protest. The book adopts a holistic approach, encompassing national trends in worker-state relations, local policymaking processes and the dilemmas of individual officials and activists. Instead of taking sides in the old debate over whether non-democracies like China's are on the verge of collapse or have instead found ways of maintaining their power indefinitely, it explores the daily evolution of autocratic rule. While providing a uniquely comprehensive picture of change in China, this important study proposes a new model of bottom-up change within authoritarian systems more generally.
Workers and Change in China
Author | : Alfred Elfstrom |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1108923283 |
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"Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers are rising. What impact is resistance having? This book uses extensive fieldwork and original statistical analysis to show that labour unrest is altering governance in China at all levels-but in a profoundly contradictory manner. Industrial conflict is yielding competing regional models of political control while spurring a general increase in both the state's repressive capacity and responsive capacity. The book thus examines both the causes and consequences of protest and shows how authorities can pursue multiple, clashing policies at once. Instead of taking sides in the old debate over whether non-democracies like China's are on the verge of collapse or have instead found ways of maintaining their power indefinitely, it explores the day-to-day evolution of autocratic rule. Finally, the book adopts a uniquely holistic approach, encompassing national trends in worker-state relations; local policymaking processes; and the dilemmas of individual officials and activists"--
China s Peasants and Workers
Author | : Beatriz Carrillo,David S. G. Goodman |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781781005736 |
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This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace. The expert contributors illustrate how the development of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of the old working class in the state owned sector. They address questions on the extent to which migrant workers have become a new working class, are absorbed into the old working class, or simply remain as migrant workers. Changes in class relations in villages in the urban periphery _ where the urbanization drive and in-migration has lead to a new local politics of class differentiation _ are also raised. Presenting new, original field research detailing social and socio-economic change in China, this book will prove invaluable to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest Asian studies, public policy, regional and urban studies, political science or sociology.
A New Deal for China s Workers
Author | : Cynthia Estlund |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-01-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674971394 |
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China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China
Author | : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan |
Publsiher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2009-04-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780776617800 |
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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.
China s Workers Under Assault
Author | : Anita Chan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781315502113 |
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This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from the countryside, and workers who are sent to work outside of China. The analytical framework for these case studies lays out why labor rights violations have been occurring in China and highlights the contex in which these violations operate and the extent to which these selected cases are not isolated incidents. Moreover, the dilemma of Chinese workers is put into international perspective: the context of the international labor market, the setting of competitive minimum wages in Asia, and the concern for Chinese workers' rights taken up by the International Labor Organization (ILO). This book debunks the conventional wisdom that Chinese workers are thriving because the Chinese economy is booming. Indeed the wage structures of these enterprises of different ownership types contribute to widening income disparities in China. The book uncovers what exactly overseas Chinese entrepreneurship (Taiwan and Hong Kong), means at the factory level. And it calls for a new approach to scrutinizing the phenomena of the so-called Chinese economic miracle and it's repercussions on other economies and labor markets.
Made in China
Author | : Pun Ngai |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822386759 |
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As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.
The Workers State Meets the Market
Author | : Sarah Cook,Margaret Maurer-Fazio |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781135296452 |
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Among the most dramatic changes to affect China in the 1990s is the upsurge in labour mobility and the emergence of a market-driven system of labour allocation, changes which profoundly affect the working environment and livelihoods of the Chinese people. Papers in this collection draw on a wide variety of data sources to analyse key elements of this transformation.