State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched

ISBN-13: 9780415651912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str.

Yongshun Cai

Opis

The author 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.

Recenzje

'Cai's book has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of opportunity constraints that conditioned laid-off workers responses to the restructuring of SOEs. It would be useful not only for those who study the changing labor relations in China's economic transition, but also for those who are interested in popular contention and collective action in general.' - The China Review, Vol 7, No.1

Spis treści

Contents  Figures and Tables  Acknowledgements Abbreviations  1. Introduction  2. The Ending of a Socialist Contract and Retrenchment  3. Retrenchment and Laid-Off Workers’ Responses  4. Fragmentation and Collective Action 5. Management and Worker Silence  6. Government and the Prevention of Worker Resistance  7. Collective Action of Chinese Laid-off Workers  8. Conclusion  Appendix Bibliography

O autorze

Yongshun Cai is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.