Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Notes on the Contributors......Page 14
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE......Page 16
1 Introduction: Whither the Iron Rice-Bowl?......Page 18
2 The Origins of Chinese ‘Industrial Relations’......Page 30
3 Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in State-owned and Joint-venture Enterprises......Page 49
4 The Social Role of the Chinese State Enterprise......Page 72
PART II: EMPIRICAL STUDIES......Page 90
5 In Pursuit of Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour–Management Relations in Chinese Enterprises......Page 92
6 Industrial Relations versus Human Resource Management in the PRC: Collective Bargaining ‘with Chinese Characteristics’......Page 115
7 Local or Global? Human Resource Management in International Joint Ventures in China......Page 132
8 Occupying the Managerial Workplace in Sino–foreign Joint Ventures: A Strategy for Control and Development......Page 154
9 Standardized Performance Management: A Study in JVs in China......Page 178
10 Work-Related Attitudes among Chinese Employees vis-à-vis ‘American’ and ‘Japanese’ Management Models......Page 200
11 Pay and Motivation in Chinese Enterprises......Page 220
PART III: EMERGING TRENDS......Page 240
12 Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China......Page 242
13 From Client to Challenger: Workers, Managers and the State in Post-Dengist China......Page 262
14 China’s Developing Civil Society: Interest Groups, Trade Unions and Associational Pluralism......Page 278
E......Page 314
M......Page 315
S......Page 316
Z......Page 317