Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Whither the Iron Rice-Bowl?....Pages 3-14
The Origins of Chinese ‘Industrial Relations’....Pages 15-33
Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in State-owned and Joint-venture Enterprises....Pages 34-56
The Social Role of the Chinese State Enterprise....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
In Pursuit of Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour-Management Relations in Chinese Enterprises....Pages 77-99
Industrial Relations versus Human Resource Management in the PRC: Collective Bargaining ‘with Chinese Characteristics’....Pages 100-116
Local or Global? Human Resource Management in International Joint Ventures in China....Pages 117-138
Occupying the Managerial Workplace in Sino—foreign Joint Ventures: A Strategy for Control and Development?....Pages 139-162
Standardized Performance Management: A Study in JVs in China....Pages 163-184
Work-Related Attitudes among Chinese Employees vis-`-vis ‘American’ and ‘Japanese’ Management Models....Pages 185-204
Pay and Motivation in Chinese Enterprises....Pages 205-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China....Pages 227-246
From Client to Challenger: Workers, Managers and the State in Post-Dengist China....Pages 247-262
China’s Developing Civil Society: Interest Groups, Trade Unions and Associational Pluralism....Pages 263-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-302