Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Globalization’s Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms....Pages 3-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality....Pages 25-44
The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China....Pages 45-63
Globalization, Structural Reform and Labour Politics in China....Pages 64-83
China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?....Pages 84-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India’s Agrarian Economy....Pages 107-130
Globalization, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy....Pages 131-150
Beyond the Factory: Globalization, Informalization of Production and the Changing Locations of Labour....Pages 151-169
‘Class’ in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore....Pages 170-188
Labour and Globalization: Union Responses in India....Pages 189-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism....Pages 209-225
Assessing China’s Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal World....Pages 226-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Concluding Reflections on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India: a Polanyian Perspective....Pages 251-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-271