Unemployment in China
Subtitle: economy, human resources and labour markets
By: edited by Grace O.M. Lee and Malcolm Warner.
Contributors: Lee, Grace, 1962-; Warner, Malcolm.
Series: Routledge contemporary China series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780415371711; 9780203967638
Subjects: Unemployment -- China; Manpower policy -- China
Description: "This book examines the growing problem of unemployment in China, investigating the implications for the economy, human resources and labour markets. It considers a wide range of important issues, including the macroeconomic context, the decline of state-owned enterprises, downsizing, re-employment policies, human resource management and retraining. Finally, it investigates the unemployment problems in particular cities, appraising the government response and assessing the prospects for the future."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene : unemployment in China / Malcolm Warner and Grace O. M. Lee; title: Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China / Michael Webber and Zhu Ying; title: Urban unemployment in China : a background analysis (1995-2003) / Hu Angang and Sheng Xin; title: Unemployment in China and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions / Ng Sek Hong and Olivia Ip; title: Women's unemployment and public-sector restructuring : the case of urban China / Xiaoyuan Dong, Yang Jiangchun, Du Fenglian, and Sai Ding; title: Beyond the iron rice bowl : life stage and family dynamics in unemployed Chinese workers / Richard H. Price, Jin Nam Choi, and Sandy Lim; title: No wage and no land : new forms of unemployment in rural China / Rachel Murphy and Ran Tao; title: Developing labour market policies in China : the experience of Shanghai / Grace O.M. Lee and Malcolm Warner; title: Active labour market policies in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Grace O.M. Lee and Malcolm Warner; title: Unemployment in the Macao Special Administrative Region / Shuming Zhao and Xiangnan Tao; title: Steeling for reform : state-enterprise restructuring and the surplus labor question / John Hassard, Jonathan Morris, Jackie Sheehan, and Xiao Yuxin; title: Downsizing strategies, human resource management and organizational changes in Chinese enterprises / Shuming Zhao and Yongqiang Liu.