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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300495403321

Autore

Hui Elaine Sio-ieng

Titolo

Hegemonic transformation : the state, laws, and labour relations in post-socialist China / / Elaine Sio-ieng Hui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-137-50429-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 266 p. 6 illus.)

Collana

Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Labor policy - China

Hegemony - China

Electronic books.

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Putting the Chinese State in Its Place: The March from Passive Revolution to Hegemony -- 2. The Gramscian Approach to the Chinese State -- 3. The Legal Foundation for Changing State-Capital-Labour Relations -- 4. Workers’ Active Consent --  5. Workers’ Passive Consent -- 6. Workers’ Refusal to Consent -- 7. Conclusion. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It illustrates that the labour law system is a crucial vehicle through which the Chinese party-state seeks to secure the working class’s consent to the capitalist class’s ethno-political leadership. The labour law system has exercised a double hegemonic effect with regards to the capital-labour relations and state-labour relations through four major mechanisms. However, these effects have influenced the Chinese migrant workers in an uneven manner. The affirmative workers have granted active consent to the ruling class leadership; the indifferent, ambiguous and critical workers



have only rendered passive consent while the radical workers has refused to give any consent at all.