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1 online resource (xix, 399 pages) : illustrations |
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Critical perspectives on work and employment |
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Critical perspectives on work and employment.
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| Contents |
Preface. Labour in China; Pun Ngai; Introduction; 1. In Search of the Labour Process Perspective in China; Chris Smith and Mingwei Liu; PART I: WORK AND EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR AND FIRM; 2. Control and Consent in the Process of Employee Participation in a Chinese State-owned Enterprise -- the Case of BZ Iron and Steel Company; Mengjie Lu; 3. Workers under Disorganized Despotism: A Case from State-Owned Shipbuilding Industry; Lefeng Lin; 4. The Making of Dualistic Labour Regime: Changing Labour Process and Power Relations in a Chinese State-Owned-Enterprise under Globalization; Wenjuan Jia; 5. Prolonged Selection or Extended Flexibility? A case study of Japanese Subsidiaries in China; Yu Zheng; 6. The Self-organization of Women Workers in the Informal Sector of the Garment Industry: a Study of Female-led Cooperative Production Teams in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China; Lulu Fan; 7 |
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Contingent Work in the Chinese Call Centre Sector; Xiangmin Liu and Can Ouyang 8. Power, Space, and Subjectivity in a Transnational Garment Factory in China; Jaesok Kim; PART II: LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS: UNIONS and COLLECTIVE BARGAININ; 9. Employer Responses to Labor Shortage in China: the Case of the Knitwear Industry; Hao Zhang; 10. Collective Consultation in China: A Comparative Study of Two Auto Companies; Fuxi Wang and Mingwei Liu; 11. Direct Elections of Workplace Trade Unions in China: Implications for the changing labour regime; Chris Chan and Elaine Hui; PART III: STRIKES AND LABOUR ACTIVISM; 12. A Pathway to a Vital Labour Movement in China? A Case Study of a Union-Led Protest against Walmart; Chunyun Li and Mingwei Liu; 13. Strikes and Workplace Collective Bargaining in the Auto Parts Industry in Guangzhou; Yunxue Deng; PART IV: WORK AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE OVERSEAS CHINESE FIRM; 14 |
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Foxconn beyond China: Capital-labour Relations as Co-determinants of Internationalization; Rutvica Andrijasevic and Sacchetto Devi; 15. The Management of Labour in Chinese MNCs Operating Outside of China: a Critical Review; Chris Smith and Yu Zheng |
| Summary |
"Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, China at Work is an edited collection that brings together leading and emerging young researchers on the Chinese workplace. This book discusses key features and contrasts in employment and labour conditions within China, as well as reviewing the impact of Chinese firms operating outside of China. Containing cutting-edge research that captures the diversity of the Chinese workplace today, it provides an up-to-date exploration of trade unions & NGOs, employment reform, labour activism and old, new and emerging labour processes and management regimes."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Labor supply -- China
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Employees -- China
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Work environment -- China
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Marxian economics.
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International business.
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Economics, finance, business & management.
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Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Labor.
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Employees
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Labor supply
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Marxian economics
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Work environment
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1.1 Arbeitsbedingungen.
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1.2 Erwerbstätigkeit.
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1.3 Gewerkschaft.
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1.4 Tarifverhandlungen.
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1.5 China.
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Liu, Mingwei, editor
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Smith, Chris, 1953- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137433299 |
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1137433299 |
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9781350394643 |
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1350394645 |
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