State And Laid Off Workers In Reform China

Author : Yongshun Cai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134204151

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State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China by Yongshun Cai Pdf

In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in workers' collective action. Cai investigates the difference in interests of and options available to workers that reduce their solidarity, as well as the obstacles that prevent their coordination. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, this book explores the Chinese Government’s policies and how their feedback shaped workers’ incentives and capacity of action.

Author : T. Gold,W. Hurst,J. Won,Q. Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230620445

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Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State by T. Gold,W. Hurst,J. Won,Q. Li Pdf

In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

Author : Yongshun Cai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 041536888X

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State and Laid-off Workers in Reform China by Yongshun Cai Pdf

This study examines the variation in Chinese workers' collective action after the Chinese government launched its 1990 reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work.

Author : Catherine Jones Finer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351761420

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Social Policy Reform in China by Catherine Jones Finer Pdf

This title was first published in 2003.The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy, the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China’s recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way, East-West lesson learning in social and public policy.

Author : William Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Government business enterprises
ISBN : 0511517270

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The Chinese Worker After Socialism by William Hurst Pdf

Author : Jie Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456176

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Unknotting the Heart by Jie Yang Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal "counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers. These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and "hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.

Author : John Hassard,Jackie Sheehan,Meixiang Zhou,Jane Terpstra-Tong,Jonathan Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134195206

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China's State Enterprise Reform by John Hassard,Jackie Sheehan,Meixiang Zhou,Jane Terpstra-Tong,Jonathan Morris Pdf

Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and the Group Company Experiments, which began in the 1990s. It discusses the relations between workers, managers, and the state in post-Dengist China, the implications of the reform programme for human resources management in state enterprises, the nature of labour representation, and organization under tate capitalism and the problems of surplus labour and reemployment.

Author : Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134195268

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Unemployment in China by Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking. Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment. At the same time, further restructuring is predicted as the full impact of the accession to the WTO is felt throughout China. A further problem is that new jobs in China's growth industries are more likely to be secured by younger, better-qualified workers than by older, poorly educated and unskilled workers who have been laid off. This book discusses a wide range of issues related to the growing unemployment problem in China and examines the problems in particular cities, appraises the government response, and assesses the prospects going forward.

Author : Dorothy J. Solinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538154960

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Poverty and Pacification by Dorothy J. Solinger Pdf

This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China’s single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade Organization. Under these circumstances, leaders urged firms to lay off tens of millions of previously lifetime-employed, welfare-secure, under-educated, middle-aged employees. As these dislocated people were left without any source of livelihood, the regime settled on a tiny welfare effort, the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (dibao), to provide some support and, most important from the viewpoint of the leadership, to keep them quiet so that enterprise reform could proceed peacefully. Solinger explores the induced urban poverty that resulted and relates the painful struggle for survival of these discarded laborers. She also details the history and workings of the dibao and its missteps, as well as changes in policy over time. Drawing on dozens of interviews, this book brings to life the urban workers who have been relegated to obsolescence, isolation, and invisibility by China’s quest for modernity.

Author : Zuliu Hu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : UCSD:31822018841643

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Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China by Zuliu Hu Pdf

Author : Beatriz Carrillo,Jane Duckett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136838675

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China's Changing Welfare Mix by Beatriz Carrillo,Jane Duckett Pdf

This book draws attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of local welfare provision that lies behind broad national policies and programmes. Their focus on local diversity is particularly relevant to understanding the welfare system in China because national state programmes are so often organized by local governments in line with the specifics of their economic and social development. At the same time that social and economic development is itself independently creating an array of different conditions that shape non-state (family, business and third sector) welfare roles . Through chapters that draw on original research in eight provinces, the book adopts a ‘local’ perspective to illustrate and explain some of the transformations that are under way and discuss not only local government initiatives and programmes, but also the services and support provided by families, informal social networks and community or third sector organizations, as well as those delivered by private businesses on a commercial, for-profit basis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese society, social policy, and Chinese studies more widely. Beatriz Carrillo is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jane Duckett is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK

Author : Fan Gang,Maria Rosa Lunati,David O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : UCSD:31822026344119

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Labour Market Aspects of State Enterprise Reform in China by Fan Gang,Maria Rosa Lunati,David O'Connor Pdf

Author : Chan, Chak Kwan,Ngok, Kinglun
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847429599

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Social policy in China by Chan, Chak Kwan,Ngok, Kinglun Pdf

This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China's welfare polices since its conception of an open-door policy in 1978. Setting out basic concepts and issues, including key terms and the process of policy making, it overcomes a major barrier to understanding Chinese social policy. The book explores in detail the five key policy areas of employment, social security, health, education and housing. Each is examined using a human well-being framework comprising both qualitative and quantitative data and eight dimensions: physical and psychological well-being, social integration, fulfilment of caring duties, human learning and development, self-determination, equal value and just polity. This enables the authors to provide not only factual information on policies but also an in-depth understanding of the impact of welfare changes on the quality of life of Chinese people over the past three decades. A major strength of the book lies in its use of primary Chinese language sources, including relevant White Papers, central and local government policy documents, academic research studies and newspapers for each policy area. There are very few books in English on social policy in China, and this book will be welcomed both by academics and students of China and East Asian studies and comparative social policy and by those who want to know more about China's social development.

Author : Alice B. Dong
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0612917320

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Gender, Unemployment and Female Laid-off Workers in State Enterprises in Contemporary China [microform] : Case Studies of Beijing and Changzhou by Alice B. Dong Pdf

This study aims to explore the lives of female laid-off workers in China based on field work in two cities: Beijing and Changzhou. The major issues raised are social and economic causes and consequences of female attribution in paid labor force since the mid 1980s, when the state enterprises were reformed from a planning to a marketing system. This study employs field interview in two factories in two cities, as well as survey of statistics and the documentary materials. In other words, the study includes both participant observation and secondary data analysis. This studies, in addition, goes beyond evidences generated by field research in two factory. Through a historical review and a macro analysis of the national government's policies regarding lay-offs, women's experience and their family lives are situated in an historical, specific time: the era of the reforms.

Author : Chao Chien-min,Bruce Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134509928

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Remaking the Chinese State by Chao Chien-min,Bruce Dickson Pdf

After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic policies and practices of the Maoist era have been abandoned, with the goals of revolution in foreign and domestic policy being replaced by an emphasis on economic modernization, accompanied by radical social transformation and an increasingly significant international role. Yet, despite these dramatic changes other fundamental features of China's policy remain unchanged. This book explores the strategies of reform in China and their implications for its domestic and foreign policies. It challenges the misconceptions that no political reforms are taking place and that China is eagerly embracing capitalism. It also challenges the view that China does not abide by international norms and practices on military and security matters. Its contributors, all highly respected scholars, avoid simple generalisations about the nature of China's politics or future path, instead offering comparisons and contrasts between policy areas and regions to create a more complete picture of this complex country.