Peter Sheldon is an Associate Professor in the School of Organisation and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. Sunghoon Kim is a Lecturer in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia. Yiqiong Li is completing her PhD at the School of Organisation and Management,University of New South Wales, Australia. Malcolm Warner is Professor and Fellow Emeritus of Wolfson College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. He recently co-edited ‘Making Sense’ of HRM in China (also published by Routledge) and is co-editor of Asia Pacific Business Review.

• Part 1; Putting Change in Context 1. Transition to a Socialist Market Economy: Factor Markets, Management and Human Resources in China 2. Chinese Business Systems and the Challenges Of Transition 3. Changing Legislative and Institutional Arrangements Facing China’s Workplace Part 2: Emerging Dynamics In Labor Markets 4. Change and Continuity in China’s Urban Workforce: Recent Trends 5. Local Labour Markets 6. Education, Training And Skills 7. Skill Shortages: Where Labour Supply Problems Meet Employee Poaching 8. Remaking China’s Working Class: Gongren and Nongmingong Part 3: China’s Changing Workplace: Emerging Divergence 9. Human Resource Management and Employment Relations In State-Owned Enterprises 10. Foreign Invested Firms and their Human Resource Management: Beyond Early Transition Period 11. People Management Practices in Family Firms 12. HRM And Employment in the Service Industry Part 4: Change, Divergence And Disparity: Some Consequences 13. Institutional Conditions for Organising Decent Work in Global Production Networks 14. Labour Market Disparities and Inequalities 15. Changing Chinese Trade Unions: A Three Level Analysis 16. Employer Coordination and Employer Associations

"This book is a very successful attempt to demystify the variety of China’s workplace from the inside out, setting it off against approaches that assume this variety to be a natural derivative of China’s economic transformation." - Yuning Gao, Newnham College, Cambridge University, The China Journal