Unemployment in China

Malcolm Warner is Professor and Fellow Emeritus at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Senior Research Associate at the Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University.Grace O.M. Lee is Associate Professor at the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong.

• Part 1: General 1. Setting the Scene: Unemployment in China 2. Primitive Accumulation: Transition and Unemployment in China 3. Urban Unemployment in China: A Background Analysis 1998-2003 Part 2: Themes 4. Unemployment in China and the All-China Federation of Trade 5. Women’s Unemployment and Public-Sector Restructuring: The Case of Urban China 6. Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: Life Stage and Family Dynamics in Unemployed Chinese Workers 7. ‘No Land’ and ‘No Wage’: Unemployment in Rural China Part 3: Case-Studies 8. Developing Labour-Market Policies in China: Shanghai’s Experience as Case Study 9. Active Labour-Market Policies in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 10. Unemployment in the Macao Special Administrative Region 11. Steeling for Reform: State-Enterprise Restructuring and the Surplus Labour Question 12. Downsizing Strategies: Human Resource Management and Organizational Changes in Chinese Enterprises Part 4: Conclusion 13. Conclusion: Unemployment in China