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Compared with other ethnic groups, Chinese immigrants have a low profile and their voices, contributions, sufferings and needs are not widely recognised. This paper argues that the vulnerability of Chinese migrant workers is related to the poor working conditions in ethnic workplaces and the social isolation they experience, and that these two problems are interwoven. The data were obtained from an empirical survey involving 28 Chinese- and Italian-owned manufacturers in the textile, garment and leather sectors in the Veneto region of northern Italy, selected to enable comparisons to be made between conditions in Chinese-owned and Italian-owned businesses. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

This paper explains rising labour unrest among China's state-owned enterprise employees through an examination of the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and urban industrial workers. In so doing, it assesses the way the CCP has responded to labour pressure for better industrial and political representation since the late-1980s, and how it has shown concern over workers' attempts to form independent labour organisations, seeking instead to contain an increasingly restive working class within the framework of state-controlled unionism. We argue that the CCP's relaxation of centralised control over a more open, 'mixed' economy has not been matched in the area of labour representation by a greater tolerance of autonomous organisation, leading to intensifying conflict with labour.

This article reviews "corporatization" & "marketization," shorthands for privatization, in the People's Republic of China's economy. Focus is on the most recent round of state-owned enterprise reforms, the Modern Enterprise System & Group Company System, aimed at transforming China's largest state-owned enterprises into internationally competitive corporations. This represents a partial privatization, given that the state will retain majority ownership, while acquiring domestic & foreign capital via sharelistings & foreign & domestic joint ventures. Drawing on interview material from a 5-year study of state-owned enterprises, the authors show that such partial privatization has been pragmatic & relatively slow. It has been constrained & circumscribed by broader economic & social reform programs & accompanied by political decentralization & reforms. Ultimately, reform & the pace of reform are shaped by the desire to avoid political & social unrest, which could potentially threaten the harmony of the Chinese central state apparatus. 2 Tables, 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

Based on a survey conducted in 2009, in Nottingham and Leicester, and consisted of two core elements : 1) field observations in Chinese restaurants or take-aways, retailers or TCM shops and decorating and child-minding sectors, and 2) 37 in-depth interviews