From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization

Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China

AvSarosh Kuruvilla,Ching Kwan Lee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar transitions have occurred in other countries, such as Korea, although perhaps not at such a rapid pace as in China. This shift echoes the move from "breadwinning" careers to contingent employment in the postindustrial United States. In From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society. This book provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among workers, unions, NGOs, employers, and the state as they deal with the new landscape of insecure employment.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-08-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9780801450242
Utmärkelser:A 2011 Princeton University Industrial Relations S

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Sarosh Kuruvilla is Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations, Asian Studies, and Public Affairs at Cornell University, where he serves as chair of ILR International Programs. Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the author of Gender and the South China Miracle and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. Mary E. Gallagher is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and the author of Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China.

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Kuruvilla et al. chart the journey from employment security—known as the 'iron rice bowl' in colloquial Chinese—to informalization in 10 chapters. This sad tale is standard fare in the global labour studies literature, but the underlying arguments in this book are more nuanced and at times controversial.... This book... [is a] valuable addition to the Chinese labour relations canon. Kuruvilla et. al. point the way to further research opportunities....- Tim Pringle (British Journal of Industrial Relations)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction and ArgumentMary E. Gallagher, Ching Kwan Lee, and Sarosh KuruvillaPart I: Informalization and the State2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor MarketAlbert Park and Fang Cai3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary ChinaMary E. Gallagher and Baohua Dong4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of InsecurityMark W. FrazierPart II: Transformation of Employment Relations in Industries5. Enterprise Reform and Wage Movements in Chinese Oil Fields and RefineriesKun-Chin Lin6. The Paradox of Labor Force Dualism and State-Labor-Capital Relations in the Chinese Automobile IndustryLu Zhang7. Permanent Temporariness in the Chinese Construction IndustrySarah SwiderPart III: Unions, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Workers8. "Where There Are Workers, There Should Be Trade Unions": Union Organizing in the Era of Growing Informal EmploymentMingwei Liu9. The Anti-Solidarity Machine?: Labor Nongovernmental Organizations in ChinaChing Kwan Lee and Yuan Shen10. ConclusionMary E. Gallagher, Sarosh Kuruvilla, and Ching Kwan LeeNotesReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex