The Chinese are the worst?
Subtitle: human rights and labor practices in Zambian mining
By: Barry Sautman and YAN Hairong
Contributors: Yan, Hairong; University of Maryland at Baltimore. School of Law
Series: Maryland series in contemporary Asian studies -- no. 3 - 2012 (210); Maryland series in contemporary Asian studies -- no. 3 - 2012.
Publisher: University of Maryland School of Law
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781932330397
Subjects: Rules and practice; Research; Evaluation; Copper miners; Employment; Copper industry and trade; Employee rights; Chinese Investments; Economic conditions; China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Company; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Description: Examines conditions at China Nonferrous Metal Mining Company (CNMC) and Zambia's mining enterprises, and empirically evaluates practices implicating rights related to safety, wages, hours, unions, and job security in order to evaluate assertions by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that CNMC engages in labor abuses and is a "bad employer" compared to Western-based foreign investors.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction : discourses of China-in-Africa and copper mining in Zambia; title: II. Empirical problems. A. Safety records compared and contextualized; title: B. The wage gap : factoring in contract workers, productivity and profits; title: C. Hours; title: D. Job security; title: E. Unions; title: III. Methodological confusions; title: IV. Contextualizing the claim; title: V. Conclusion : why "the Chinese are the worst."