Authoritarian Legality in China - Law, Workers, and the State

Informationen zum Autor Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, and in 2012–13, she was a Visiting Professor at the Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University. She is also the author or editor of several books, including Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (with Margaret Y. K. Woo, Cambridge, 2011) and Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (with Allen Carlson, Kenneth Lieberthal and Melanie Manion, Cambridge, 2010). Klappentext This book examines Chinese workers' experiences and shows how disenchantment with the legal system drives workers from the courtroom to the streets. Zusammenfassung The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the world. But laws on the books are meaningless if workers don't mobilize to protect themselves. This book examines the experiences of aggrieved workers and shows how disenchantment with the legal system drives workers from the courtroom to the streets. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Authoritarian legality at work: workplace reform and China's urbanization; 2. A theory of authoritarian legality; 3. Fire alarms and fire fighters: institutional reforms legal mobilization at the Chinese workplace; 4. By the book: legal mobilization as an educative process; 5. Great expectations: the disparate effects of legal mobilization; 6. The limits of authoritarian legality; 7. Epilogue: requiem for the labor contract law?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mary Gallagher, Mary E Gallagher, Mary E. Gallagher, Mary E. (University of Michigan Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth (University of Michigan Gallagher
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107083776
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08377-6
• Pagine: 266
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Sociology: work & labour, Constitution: government & the state, Sociology: work and labour, Constitution: government and the state, Local government law