Employment and Economic Growth in Urban

Klappentext A study of China's urban employment problems set in the context of growth and fluctuations in the urban economy. Zusammenfassung A study of China's urban employment problems between 1949 and 1957. Its main objectives are to analyse the size and determinants or urban employment change! and to trace the evolution both of Chinese thinking about employment and the institutions of labour control that reflected this thinking in day-to-day administration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. Economic Development and employment Change in Urban Areas: 1. The development of the urban economy; 2. The growth and structure of the urban labour force; 3. The determinants of structural employment change; 4. Employment fluctuations and their consequences; Part II. Employment Policy and Administration: 5. The foundation of the Labour Bureaux and the beginnings of employment administration, 1949-52; 6. First steps in employment planning, 1953-55; 7. High tide, crisis and reform, 1956-57; 8. The aftermath of central planning; Appendices; Bibliography; Indices.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Howe, Howe Christopher
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521153089
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15308-9
• Series: Contemporary China Institute P; Contemporary China Institute Publications; Contemporary China Institute P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; HISTORY / World, General & world history, Labour / income economics, General and world history