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Diverging trajectories: economic rebalancing and labour policies in China
Auseinandergehende Wege: ökonomische Entwicklung und Arbeitspolitik in China
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Abstract "This paper develops a new approach to analyse labour relations at the level of companies, industries, and regions in China. Referring to Western and Chinese labour sociology and industrial relations theory, the author applies the concept of 'regimes of production' to the context of China's emerging... view more
"This paper develops a new approach to analyse labour relations at the level of companies, industries, and regions in China. Referring to Western and Chinese labour sociology and industrial relations theory, the author applies the concept of 'regimes of production' to the context of China's emerging capitalism. This article focuses on China's modern core manufacturing industries (i.e. steel, chemical, auto, electronics, and textile and garment); it explores regimes of production in major corporations and new forms of labour-management cooperation, the growing inequality and fragmentation of labour policies within the modern sectors of the Chinese economy, consequences for further reform regarding labour standards, collective bargaining, and workers' participation." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
China; model; economic development (single enterprise); economic change; Western world; manufacturing conditions; labor relations; representation of interests; cooperation; labor policy; standardization (meth.); negotiation; social actor; Far East; developing country; Asia
Classification
Economic Policy
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Method
descriptive study; empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 105-137
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42 (2013) 4
Issue topic
Rebalancing China's political economy
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works