Full Description
Over the past seven decades-since the 1949 Revolution-every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector has experienced more tumultuous twists and turns than industry. The eight articles contained in this volume examine these twists and turns, focusing on those aspects of industrial relations that involve contention and power, that is, factory politics. They were selected among articles that have appeared in the Chinese journal Open Times ( ) over the past decade. Because Open Times has a well-earned reputation for publishing diverse viewpoints, it has been able to attract some of the very best scholarship in China.
Contents
List of ContributorsIntroduction1 From Passion to Deception - Daily Life at the Grassroots under State Control of Production before and after the Great Leap Forward: an Investigation of TY Factory in Guangzhou (1956-1965)Jia Wenjuan ( )Translated by Shayan Momin2 Research into the Implementation of the Staff and Workers Congress System in State-Owned Enterprises: a 60-Year Case Study of One FactoryCai He ( ) and Li Wanlian ( )Translated by Roderick Graham Flagg3 A Simple Control Model Analysis of Labor Relations in Industrial SOEsTong Xin ( )Translated by Roderick Graham Flagg4 Changes in Production Models within State-Owned Enterprises under the "Double Transformations:" the Rise of Internal Labor Subcontracting in City A's Nanchang Factory (2001-2013)Jia Wenjuan ( )Translated by Shayan Momin5 Sustaining Production: Spatial Interactions between Han and Uyghur Workers at the Kashgar Cotton MillLiu Ming ( )Translated by Heather Mowbray6 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Toy Industry's Supply Chain: an Empirical Study of Walmart Supplier Factories in ChinaYu Xiaomin ( )Translated by Shayan Momin7 Direct Labor Union Elections: Lessons from GuangdongWen Xiaoyi ( )Translated by Matthew A. Hale8 Patterns of Collective Resistance among the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: from the Politics of Production to the Politics of LifeWang Jianhua ( ) and Meng Quan ( )Translated by Matthew A. Hale
