Shall we dance? Welfarist incorporation and the politics of state-labour NGO relations in China

Jude Howell

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Abstract: State-labour NGOs relations in China have been particularly fraught. In 2012 these took an interesting twist, as some local governments made overtures to labour NGOs to co-operate in providing services to migrant workers. This article argues that this shift is part of a broader strategy of `welfarist incorporation’ to redraw the social contract between state and labour. There are two key elements to this: first, relaxation of the registration regulations for social organisations; second, governmental purchasing of services from social organisations. These overtures have both a state and market logic to maintain social control and stabilise relations of production.

JEL-codes: E6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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Published in China Quarterly, September, 2015, 223, pp. 702-723. ISSN: 0305-7410

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