The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
Subtitle: State, Revolution, and Labor Management (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521800211
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Labour economics; Politics/International Relations; Labor policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; China; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Labor policy--China; Political Science / General; Economic Conditions
First sentence: What Lenin said of Russian workers highlights an important but under-studied problem of many states that seek to jump-start industrialization through the rapid mobilization of capital and labor: building new factories also requires new norms and rules governing the employment relationship of the people who are to work in factories.