In the shadow of the dragon: transnational labor activism between state and private politics: a multilevel analysis of labor activism targeting China
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Autor: Zajak, Sabrina
Jahr: 2012
Content
List of tables and figures.........................................................................................................................6
Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................................8
List of abbreviations................................................................................................................................9
1. Introduction: Multilevel labor activism, transnational institutions, and China................................11
1.1 Multilevel activism in the shadow of a strong and non-democratic state..................................11
1.2 The problem of multiple institutional contexts as an environment for transnational activism. 13
1.3 China—the untouchable giant?...................................................................................................17
1.4 Aim of the dissertation and research questions.........................................................................19
1.5 Research design, case selections, and data sources...................................................................23
1.6 Key findings of this dissertation..................................................................................................29
1.7 Structure of the dissertation.......................................................................................................33
2. Reconstructing theories on globalization, institutions, and transnational activism.........................36
2.1 Trade Unions, NGOs, and China: defining forms of transnational activism................................37
2.2 Identifying major concepts and blind spots in the literature......................................................39
2.2.1. Transnational activism within social movement theory and international relations.........39
2.2.2. Economic globalization, transnational institution building and change.............................48
2.3. Analytical framework: theorizing transnational pathways of influence....................................53
2.3.1 From multilevel opportunities to studying interdependent transnational pathways of
influence........................................................................................................................................53
2.3.2 Institutional environments and action repertoires: intra-pathway dynamics.....................57
2.3.4 Inter-pathway dynamics.......................................................................................................63
2.3.5 Interplay between the global and the local.........................................................................64
2.3.6 The special case of the capacity pathway............................................................................72
2.4 Summary and overview of analytical dimensions for the study of transnational pathways of
influence............................................................................................................................................73
3. Defining the shadow of the dragon: China s internal and external strength....................................76
3.1. China s economic liberalization without political liberalization.................................................77
3.2 The emergence of different production regimes........................................................................84
3.3 A new working class in the making and the grievances of migrant workers..............................86
3.4 Worker unrest and the responses of the political regime..........................................................91
3.5 The evolution of the Chinese labor law.......................................................................................95
3.6 Barriers to implementing the national labor law......................................................................100
3.7 The changing state-society relationship: the evolution of NGOs..............................................107
4. Transnational activism within the international-organizational pathway. The case of the ILO.....112
4.2 Three facets of labor activism from above, aside and from within..........................................128
4.2.1 Activism from above: international union complaints and diagnostic struggles about the
rule of law in China......................................................................................................................128
4.2.2 Activism from aside: the constitution of transnational linkages and the changing
relationship of the ICFTU towards the ACFTU.............................................................................141
4.2.3 Activism from below? China state agencies as gate keepers for transnational domestic
opportunities...............................................................................................................................149
4.3 Summary and conclusion: Union strategies and China s selective responsiveness..................158
5. Transnational activism in the bilateral pathway: the European Union s relations to China...........162
5.1 Mapping the opportunity structure in Europe s changing trade and labor agenda.................171
5.1.1 The participatory turn in the EU s new trade and labor agenda........................................171
5.1.2 The Europe-China trade relations......................................................................................180
5.2 The fragmented mobilizing structure within Europe................................................................187
5.3 Forms of labor-rights activism within the EU-China trade relations.........................................193
5.3.1. Unions and NGOs within EU institutions: consultation and lobbying...............................193
5.3.2 Evolving activism from aside? Institutionalizing transnational exchange in EU-China
relations^......................................................................................................................................207
5.3.3 Ad-hoc labor advocacy work in EU-China dialogues..........................................................211
5.4 Interregional relations and participation of labor advocates: the Asia-Europe Meeting.........216
5.5 Summary and Conclusion: increasing resonance and exclusive access..................... .............236
6. Transnational activism in the market pathway...............................................................................241
6.1 Intra- and inter-pathways developments: the creation of opportunities in the market..........247
6.1.1 Activism from within. Unstable access and voice in MSIs..................................................247
6.1.2 Transnational industry wide campaigns.............................................................................262
6.1.3 Rising or diminishing opportunities for labor advocates in the market pathway? Summary
of the findings..............................................................................................................................279
6.2 The global-local link: the outcomes of multistakeholder regulation........................................281
6.2.1 Corporate Social Responsibility with Chinese characteristics .........................................281
6.2.2 The coevolution and interaction of transnational and state institutions..........................286
6.2.3 Summary and overview on the different modes of interaction.........................................310
6.3 Summary and Conclusion: multiple opportunities but little outcomes....................................312
7. The capacity-building pathway........................................................................................................316
7.1 The domestic political and institutional context: from closed opportunities to enabling and
constraining factors.........................................................................................................................322
7.1.1 Domestic opportunities and obstacles for NGO activities.................................................323
7.1.2 Labor-support organizations in the Chinese system of industrial relations.......................326
7.1.3 Enabling and constraining effects of transnational flow of resources...............................331
7.2 A plurality of new worker-support organizations.....................................................................335
7.3 Case studies...............................................................................................................................341
7.3.1 Civil society building as legal support: the China Labour Bulletin......................................342
7.3.2 Movement-oriented organizations in mainland China: Xiao Xiao Niao.............................349
7.3.3 Business-oriented organizations: the Institute of Contemporary Observation.................353
7.3.4 Balancing business and movement orientation: the Chinese Working Women Network 358
7.3.5 The intersection of domestic and transnational opportunities and the implications for the
Chinese labor movement............................................................................................................370
7.3 Summary and Conclusion: contained multipartism and the Chinese labor movement...........376
8. Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................380
8.1 Summary of the findings: transnational activism and institutional change..............................382
8.1.1 Intra-pathway dynamics.....................................................................................................384
8.1.2 Inter-pathway interactions.................................................................................................388
8.1.3 Interplay between the global and the local.......................................................................391
8.2 Theoretical contributions..........................................................................................................394
8.2.1 Integrating theories on transnational institutions and activism: Transnational institutions
as complex opportunity spaces...................................................................................................394
8.2.2 Selective convergence: activism as part of processes of coevolution and interaction......397
8.3 Transnational activism, democratization, and China - some final thoughts............................401
9. Appendix..........................................................................................................................................406
Appendix 1: General tables and figures..........................................................................................406
Appendix 2: Data Sources (documents) international-organizational pathway (ILO)....................408
Appendix 3: Data Sources (documents) bilateral pathway (EU).....................................................412
Appendix 4: Data sources (documents) market pathway...............................................................420
Appendix 5: Overview of interviews..............................................................................................422
Appendix 6: Overview of participant observations.........................................................................427
10. Bibliography...................................................................................................................................429
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