Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China
In: Non-Governmental Public Action
In: Non-Governmental Public Action Ser.
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Multilevel Labor Activism, Transnational Institutions, and China -- The Problem of Activism in Multiple Institutional Contexts: Studying Transnational Pathways of Influence -- How to Study Transnational Pathway of Influence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Defining the Shadow of the Dragon: China's Internal and External Strength -- China's Economic Liberalization Without Political Liberalization -- The Emergence of Different Production Regimes -- The Evolution of the Chinese Labor Law -- The Changing State-Society Relationship: The Evolution of NGOs with Chinese Characteristics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Transnational Activism within the International-Organizational Pathway. The Case of the ILO -- Inter-pathway Dynamics and China's Changing Position Toward the ILO Since the 1990s -- Three Facets of Labor Activism from Above, Aside, and from Within -- Activism from Above: International Union Complaints and Diagnostic Struggles About the Rule of Law in China -- Outcomes and Consequences of Activism from Above -- Activism from Aside: The Constitution of Transnational Linkages and the Changing Relationship of the ICFTU Toward the ACFTU -- Activism from Below? China State Agencies as Gate Keepers for Transnational Domestic Opportunities -- Summary and Conclusion: Unions Strategies in the Context of the ILO -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Bilateral Pathway: The European Union and China -- Mapping the Opportunity Structure in Europe's Changing Trade and Labor Agenda -- The Participatory Turn in the EU's New Trade and Labor Agenda -- The EU's External Social Agenda -- The Europe-China Trade Relations -- The Fragmented Mobilizing Structure Within Europe -- Forms of Labor-Rights Activism Within the EU-China Trade Relations