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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826640403321

Autore

Frazier Mark W

Titolo

The making of the Chinese industrial workplace : state, revolution, and labor management / / Mark W. Frazier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-107-12241-4

1-280-43021-4

0-511-17542-6

0-511-01653-0

0-511-15578-6

0-511-32889-3

0-511-51007-1

0-511-04742-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge modern China series

Disciplina

331/.0951

Soggetti

Labor policy - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction 2. Labor management and its opponents, 1927-1937 3. Welfare and wages in wartime 4. Takeover policies and labor politics, 1949-1952 5. Adjusting to the command economy 6. Enterprise perspectives on the command economy 7. The rise of 'party committee factories' 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the 'iron rice bowl' of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central institution in Chinese politics emerged over the course of various crises that swept through China's industrial sector prior to and after revolution in 1949. Frazier explores critical phases in the expansion of the Chinese state during the middle third of the twentieth century to reveal how different labour institutions reflected state power. While the 'iron rice bowl' is usually seen as an outgrowth of Communist labour policy, Frazier's account shows that is has longer historical roots. As a product of the Chinese state, the iron rice bowl's dismantling in the 1990s has raised sensitive issues about the way in



which the contemporary Chinese state exerts control over urban industrial society. This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.