Chinese Worker After Socialism

Informationen zum Autor William Hurst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. 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.

Product details

• Authors: William Hurst, William (Assistant Professor Hurst, Hurst William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521898874
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89887-4
• 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