The Chinese Worker after Socialism. By William Hurst. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 208p. $99.00
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 640-640
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 640-640
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 57-63
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 640
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: China perspectives, Band 2008, Heft 1, S. 114-115
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 58, S. 184-185
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: New Labor Forum, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 87-96
In: New labor forum: a journal of ideas, analysis and debate, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 87-96
ISSN: 1557-2978
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 57, S. 166-168
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 55, S. 164-165
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The future of organised labour: global perspectives, S. 275-304
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 54, S. 201-204
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: China perspectives, Band 2005, Heft 1
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: China perspectives: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Heft 57, S. 23-32
ISSN: 2070-3449, 1011-2006
In the Western press, there regularly have been reports about the plight of Chinese paid a pittance for working long hours making products for export. The reports are accurate, and in fact, in a great many factories labour standards have continued to decline. But there are new developments in the labour arena that herald change. The formerly vast pool of impoverished workers from the countryside has begun drying up, as increasing numbers consider it not worthwhile to migrate from their villages. Western multinationals have devised "corporate codes of conduct" setting a floor for labour standards and, under pressure from the international anti-sweatshop movement, are seeking to enforce the codes in the Chinese factories that produce goods bearing their brands. The Chinese Federation of Trade Unions has mounted new efforts to establish union branches in foreign-run enterprises, and has begun organising enterprise-level trade-union elections in state-owned enterprises. These and the several other important developments, which will be examined in this paper are still just emerging. Tracking them helps us see what may lie ahead in the coming decade in Chinese labour relations. (China Perspect/DÜI)
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In: New Labor Forum, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 1-1
In: New Labor Forum, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 66-75