Inside China''s Automobile Factories - The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance

This book examines how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Industrial restructuring and labor force transformation in the Chinese automobile industry; 3. The labor market and social composition in the automobile industry; 4. Organization of production and factory social order; 5. Hegemonic consent? Formal worker's compliance and resistance; 6. Temporary workers' struggles and the paradox of labor force dualism; 7. The state's response: the making of labor contract law and boundary-drawing strategy; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Lu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. Her work has been published in International Labor and Working Class History and the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management. She has contributed to five books: Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises (2014), China and Global Governance: The Dragon's Learning Curve (2014), From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China (2011), Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and its Alternatives (2011), and China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (2009). She received the Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association and the Best Dissertation Prize from the journal Labor History. She is currently researching capital relocation strategy and labor politics in China and Vietnam and teaching globalization, labor, development, and political economy in China and East Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Lu Zhang, Lu (Temple University Zhang, Zhang Lu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2014
• EAN: 9781107030855
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03085-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Autoindustrie, China; Wirtschaft, Recht, China, Labour / income economics, International business, Organizational theory & behaviour, Sociology: work & labour, Economics of industrial organisation, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General