China at work : a labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China /: a labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mingwei Liu, Chris Smith.
• Editors: Liu, Mingwei; Smith, Chris, 1953-
• Contents: Preface. Labour in China; Pun Ngai; Introduction; 1. In Search of the Labour Process Perspective in China; Chris Smith and Mingwei Liu; PART I: WORK AND EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR AND FIRM; 2. Control and Consent in the Process of Employee Participation in a Chinese State-owned Enterprise — the Case of BZ Iron and Steel Company; Mengjie Lu; 3. Workers under Disorganized Despotism: A Case from State-Owned Shipbuilding Industry; Lefeng Lin; 4. The Making of Dualistic Labour Regime: Changing Labour Process and Power Relations in a Chinese State-Owned-Enterprise under Globalization; Wenjuan Jia; 5. Prolonged Selection or Extended Flexibility? A case study of Japanese Subsidiaries in China; Yu Zheng; 6. The Self-organization of Women Workers in the Informal Sector of the Garment Industry: a Study of Female-led Cooperative Production Teams in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China; Lulu Fan; 7. Contingent Work in the Chinese Call Centre Sector; Xiangmin Liu and Can Ouyang 8. Power, Space, and Subjectivity in a Transnational Garment Factory in China; Jaesok Kim; PART II: LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS: UNIONS and COLLECTIVE BARGAININ; 9. Employer Responses to Labor Shortage in China: the Case of the Knitwear Industry; Hao Zhang; 10. Collective Consultation in China: A Comparative Study of Two Auto Companies; Fuxi Wang and Mingwei Liu; 11. Direct Elections of Workplace Trade Unions in China: Implications for the changing labour regime; Chris Chan and Elaine Hui; PART III: STRIKES AND LABOUR ACTIVISM; 12. A Pathway to a Vital Labour Movement in China? A Case Study of a Union-Led Protest against Walmart; Chunyun Li and Mingwei Liu; 13. Strikes and Workplace Collective Bargaining in the Auto Parts Industry in Guangzhou; Yunxue Deng; PART IV: WORK AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE OVERSEAS CHINESE FIRM; 14. Foxconn beyond China: Capital-labour Relations as Co-determinants of Internationalization; Rutvica Andrijasevic and Sacchetto Devi; 15. The Management of Labour in Chinese MNCs Operating Outside of China: a Critical Review; Chris Smith and Yu Zheng;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 399 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 331.110951; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Labor supply -- China; Employees -- China; Work environment -- China; Marxian economics; Employees; Labor supply; Marxian economics; Work environment; Arbeitsbedingungen; Erwerbstätigkeit; Gewerkschaft; Tarifverhandlungen; China; Labor; International business; Economics, finance, business & management; China
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137433299; 1137433299
• Related ISBNs: 9781137433282; 1137433280; 1137433310; 9781137433312
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record.
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