China at Work

Mingwei Liu is Associate Professor of Labour Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labour Relations, Rutgers University, USA. Chris Smith is Professor of Organisation Studies and Comparative Management, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

• Preface. Labour in China; Pun NgaiIntroduction1. In Search of the Labour Process Perspective in China; Chris Smith and Mingwei LiuPARTI: WORKAND EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR AND FIRM2. Control and Consent in the Process of Employee Participation in a Chinese State-owned Enterprise — the Case of BZ Iron and Steel Company; Mengjie Lu3. Workers under Disorganized Despotism: A Case from State-Owned Shipbuilding Industry; Lefeng Lin4. The Making of Dualistic Labour Regime: Changing Labour Process and Power Relations in a Chinese State-Owned-Enterprise under Globalization; Wenjuan Jia5. Prolonged Selection or Extended Flexibility? A case study of Japanese Subsidiaries in China; Yu Zheng6. The Self-organization of Women Workers in the Informal Sector of the Garment Industry: a Study of Female-led Cooperative Production Teams in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China; Lulu Fan7. Contingent Work in the Chinese Call Centre Sector; Xiangmin Liu and Can Ouyang8. Power, Space, and Subjectivity in a Transnational Garment Factory in China; Jaesok KimPARTII: LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS: UNIONS and COLLECTIVE BARGAININ9. Employer Responses to Labor Shortage in China: the Case of the Knitwear Industry; Hao Zhang10. Collective Consultation in China: A Comparative Study of Two Auto Companies; Fuxi Wangand Mingwei Liu11. Direct Elections of Workplace Trade Unions in China: Implications for the changing labour regime; Chris Chan and Elaine HuiPARTIII: STRIKES AND LABOUR ACTIVISM12. A Pathway to a Vital Labour Movement in China? A Case Study of a Union-Led Protest against Walmart; Chunyun Li and Mingwei Liu13. Strikes and Workplace Collective Bargaining in the Auto Parts Industry in Guangzhou; Yunxue DengPART IV: WORKAND EMPLOYMENT IN THE OVERSEAS CHINESE FIRM 14. Foxconn beyond China: Capital-labour Relations as Co-determinants of Internationalization; Rutvica Andrijasevicand Sacchetto Devi15. The Management of Labour in Chinese MNCs Operating Outside of China: a Critical Review; Chris Smith and Yu Zheng.

This volume is, to my mind, a must-read for Chinese labor scholars and others interested in labor process theory, labor politics, and labor relations more generally. I have found these case studies very useful in my courses on East Asian development and social change.