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 | 216 |
Release | 2006-01-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134204159 |
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.
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.
The Silence of the Dislocated
Title | The Silence of the Dislocated PDF eBook |
Author | Yong-Shun Cai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
Unknotting the Heart
Title | Unknotting the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Jie Yang |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2015-11-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0801456177 |
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal "counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers. These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and "hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.
State and Laid-off Workers in Reform China
Title | State and Laid-off Workers in Reform China PDF eBook |
Author | Yongshun Cai |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9780415368889 |
This study examines the variation in Chinese workers' collective action after the Chinese government launched its 1990 reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work.
China's State Enterprise Reform
Title | China's State Enterprise Reform PDF eBook |
Author | John Hassard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007-06-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134195206 |
Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and the Group Company Experiments, which began in the 1990s. It discusses the relations between workers, managers, and the state in post-Dengist China, the implications of the reform programme for human resources management in state enterprises, the nature of labour representation, and organization under tate capitalism and the problems of surplus labour and reemployment.
Social Policy Reform in China
Title | Social Policy Reform in China PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Jones Finer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351761420 |
This title was first published in 2003.The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy, the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China’s recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way, East-West lesson learning in social and public policy.