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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813254703321

Autore

Hishida Masaharu <1950-, >

Titolo

China's trade unions : how autonomous are they? : a survey of 1,811 enterprise union chairpersons / / Masaharu Hishida. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2010

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16969-1

1-135-16970-5

1-282-57594-5

9786612575945

0-203-86175-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

China policy series

Altri autori (Persone)

HishidaMasaharu <1950->

Disciplina

331.880951

Soggetti

Labor unions - China

Corporate governance - China

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Trade unions and corporatism under the socialist market economy in China; 2 Direction of trade union reforms and corporatism in PRC: Based on a survey of primary trade union chairmen (2004-6); 3 Between the party-state, employers and workers: Multiple roles of the Chinese trade union during market transition - A survey of 1,811 enterprise union chairpersons; 4 The morphogenesis of the CPC: Organizational issues

Appendix 1 China Institute of Industrial Relations: Questionnaire of primary trade union chairmenAppendix 2 Survey data; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's trade unions are. Based on an extensive, grass-roots survey of local trade union chairpersons, the book reveals that although trade unions in foreign



owned firms and in firms dealing with foreign firms are beginning to resemble trade unions in the West, in the majority of firms a state corporatist model of trade unions continues, with chairmen a