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Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective /

"As the "world's factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lüthje, Boy, Chan, Anita (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : ILR Press, An imprint of Cornell University Press, [2015].
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical and structural developments
  • Exporting corporatism? German and Japanese transnationals: regimes of production in China / Boy Luthje
  • Globalization and labor in China and the United States: convergence and divergence / Mingwei Liu, Frederick Scott Bentley, Mary Thi Evans and Susan J. Schurman
  • Labor standards
  • Recomposing Chinese migrant and state sector workers / Kevin Lin
  • Industrial upgrading and work: the impact of industrial transformation on labor in Guangdong's garment and IT sectors / Florian Butollo
  • The working and living conditions of garment workers in China and Vietnam: a comparative study / Kaxton Siu
  • Race to the bottom: the soccer ball industry in China, Pakistan, and India / Anita Chan, Hong Xue, Peter Lund-Thomsen, Khalid Nadvi, and Navjote Khara
  • Trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike
  • Labor NGOs under state corporatism: comparing China since the 1990s with Taiwan in the 1980s / Chris King-Chi Chan and Yu-Bin Chiu
  • One step forward: collective bargaining experiments in Vietnam and China / Katie Quan
  • Creating a right to strike in China: some lessons from the Australian experience / Sean Cooney and Thomas Nice
  • Trade union reforms in Russia and China: harmony, partnership, and power from below / Tim Pringle.