From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China
From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China

In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2011]
Series:Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series 14
Subjects:
Industrial relations > China
Informal sector (Economics) > China
Labor market > China
Labor policy > China
Arbeitsmarkt
Arbeitsbedingungen
Arbeitsbeziehungen
China
Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-739
DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Summary:In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar transitions have occurred in other countries, such as Korea, although perhaps not at such a rapid pace as in China. This shift echoes the move from "breadwinning" careers to contingent employment in the postindustrial United States.In From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society. This book provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among workers, unions, NGOs, employers, and the state as they deal with the new landscape of insecure employment.Contributors: Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Baohua Dong, East China University of Politics and Law; Mark W. Frazier, University of Oklahoma; Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan; Sarosh Kuruvilla, Cornell University; Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA; Kun-Chin Lin, King's College, London; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Albert Park, University of Oxford; Yuan Shen, Tsinghua University; Sarah Swider, Wayne State University; Lu Zhang, Temple University
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ISBN:9780801462931
DOI:10.7591/9780801462931

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