Diverging Trajectories: Economic Rebalancing and Labour Policies in China

Boy Lüthje ()

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell, 2013, vol. 42, issue 4, 105-137

Abstract: This paper develops a new approach to analyse labour relations at the level of companies, industries, and regions in China. Referring to Western and Chinese labour sociology and industrial relations theory, the author applies the concept of “regimes of production” to the context of China’s emerging capitalism. This article focuses on China’s modern core manufacturing industries (i.e. steel, chemical, auto, electronics, and textile and garment); it explores regimes of production in major corporations and new forms of labour-management cooperation, the growing inequality and fragmentation of labour policies within the modern sectors of the Chinese economy, consequences for further reform regarding labour standards, collective bargaining, and workers’ participation.

Keywords: China; labour relations; industrial sociology; economic rebalancing; regimes of production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
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