Chinese Worker After Socialism

Klappentext This fascinating study considers the fate of 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector in China. Zusammenfassung Based on field research in nine cities across China! this fascinating study considers the fate of the 35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these lay-offs occurred! how workers are coping with unemployment! and what actions the state is taking to provide for them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Regional political economy and labor reform; 2. The roots of unemployment and the political economy of lay-offs; 3. Remaking China's urban welfare and labor market policies; 4. Pathways to re-employment; 5. Contention, protest, and social order; Conclusion.

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• Authors: William Hurst, William (Assistant Professor Hurst, Hurst William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404625
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40462-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Sociology, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, Labour Economics, Political Economy, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Sociology: work and labour, Employment & Unemployment