Chinese workers in comparative perspective
By: edited by Anita Chan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801453496; 9780801479939
Subjects: Industrial relations; Comparative industrial relations; Labor market; Employee rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical and structural developments; title: Exporting corporatism? German and Japanese transnationals: regimes of production in China / Boy Luthje; title: Globalization and labor in China and the United States: convergence and divergence / Mingwei Liu, Frederick Scott Bentley, Mary Thi Evans and Susan J. Schurman; title: Labor standards; title: Recomposing Chinese migrant and state sector workers / Kevin Lin; title: Industrial upgrading and work: the impact of industrial transformation on labor in Guangdong's garment and IT sectors / Florian Butollo; title: The working and living conditions of garment workers in China and Vietnam: a comparative study / Kaxton Siu; title: Race to the bottom: the soccer ball industry in China, Pakistan, and India / Anita Chan, Hong Xue, Peter Lund-Thomsen, Khalid Nadvi, and Navjote Khara; title: Trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike; title: Labor NGOs under state corporatism: comparing China since the 1990s with Taiwan in the 1980s / Chris King-Chi Chan and Yu-Bin Chiu; title: One step forward: collective bargaining experiments in Vietnam and China / Katie Quan; title: Creating a right to strike in China: some lessons from the Australian experience / Sean Cooney and Thomas Nice; title: Trade union reforms in Russia and China: harmony, partnership, and power from below / Tim Pringle.