Chinese Workers and Their State
Title | Chinese Workers and Their State PDF eBook |
Author | Greg O'Leary |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1315503689 |
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.
Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State
Title | Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State PDF eBook |
Author | T. Gold |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2009-04-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230620442 |
In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.
Empire's Tracks
Title | Empire's Tracks PDF eBook |
Author | Manu Karuka |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520296648 |
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective
Title | Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Chan |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2015-05-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0801455855 |
As the "world’s factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations. Anita Chan argues that Chinese labor is too often viewed from a prism of exceptionalism and too rarely examined comparatively, even though valuable insights can be derived by analyzing China’s workforce and labor relations side by side with the systems of other nations. The contributors to Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective compare labor issues in China with those in the United States, Australia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Germany, Russia, Vietnam, and Taiwan. They also draw contrasts among different types of workplaces within China. The chapters address labor regimes and standards, describe efforts to reshape industrial relations to improve the circumstances of workers, and compare historical and structural developments in China and other industrial relations systems.
Adjusting to Capitalism
Title | Adjusting to Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Greg O'Leary |
Publisher | M.E. Sharpe |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780765600394 |
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.
Strangers on the Western Front
Title | Strangers on the Western Front PDF eBook |
Author | Guoqi Xu |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2011-02-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674060555 |
During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.
State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China
Title | State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China PDF eBook |
Author | Yongshun Cai |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2006-01-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134204167 |
In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in workers' collective action. Cai investigates the difference in interests of and options available to workers that reduce their solidarity, as well as the obstacles that prevent their coordination. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, this book explores the Chinese Government’s policies and how their feedback shaped workers’ incentives and capacity of action.