Globalization and Labour in China and India [electronic resource] : Impacts and Responses /
Bowles, P.editor.
Harriss, J.editor.
Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1 Globalization's Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms; Part II: China: Impacts and Responses; 2 Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality; 3 The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers' Struggles in Globalized China; 4 Globalization, Structural Reform and Labour Politics in China; 5 China's New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?
Part III: India: Impacts and Responses6 The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India's Agrarian Economy; 7 Globalization, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India's Socially Regulated Informal Economy; 8 Beyond the Factory: Globalization, Informalization of Production and the Changing Locations of Labour; 9 'Class' in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore; 10 Labour and Globalization: Union Responses in India; Part IV: International Dimensions and Responses; 11 Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism
12 Assessing China's Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal WorldPart V: Conclusion; 13 Concluding Reflections on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India: a Polanyian Perspective; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?
Political economy.
International relations.
Asia—Politics and government.
Political sociology.
Sociology.
Political science.
International Political Economy.
International Relations.
Asian Politics.
Political Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Political Science.