An Emerging Chinese Labor Movement

Smith, Brendan; Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim

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“…The multinationals feared that while they would comply with the new law, domestic competitors would not, putting the multinationals at a competitive disadvantage (Liu : 151–60; Smith et al . ).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Some analysts believed that only state owned enterprises (SOEs) or multinationals would implement the law (Liu : 159; Smith et al . ), whereas most other employers would not take it seriously.…”

Section: Why the New Labour Contract Law?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pressure from European trade unions forced the EU Chamber to drop its public opposition to the law, but the American Chamber kept pressing for changes in the proposed legislation. The multinationals feared that while they would comply with the new law, domestic competitors would not, putting the multinationals at a competitive disadvantage (Liu 2010: 151-60;Smith et al 2007).…”

Section: Why the New Labour Contract Law?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even if local officials sought to enforce laws, they had few inspectors to investigate and pressure firms to comply (Li 2008a(Li : 1102. Some analysts believed that only state owned enterprises (SOEs) or multinationals would implement the law (Liu 2010: 159;Smith et al 2007), whereas most other employers would not take it seriously.…”

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How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Lü

Freeman

2014

Brit J Industrial Rel

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China's new Labour Contract Law took effect in January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labour protections for workers and contained penalties for firms that did not follow the labour code. This article uses survey data of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta before and after the law, and a retrospective question on when workers received their first labour contract to assess the effects of the law on labour outcomes. The evidence shows that the new law increased the percentage of migrant workers with written contracts, which in turn raised social insurance coverage, reduced the likelihood of wage arrears and raised the likelihood that workers had a union at their workplace.

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How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Lü

Freeman

2014

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“…They have to take some urgent measures to extinguish the intense accident. Employers have to negotiate with the representatives of workers, or arrange the firm safeguards to halt the strike, or ask police to protect their managers; police arrive at the striking spot to control the order of conflict, or to arrest the leaders of struggling workers; government officials intervene, mediate and arbitrate the occurrences by the administrative power (Yongshun Cai .2002;Smith, B et al, 2007). But the intervention taken by government to determinate the win or failure of collective workers is not topically discussed.…”

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Determinants of the Struggling Odds of Collective Workers in China

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Fairris²,

Li³

2017

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Abstract. There are hundreds of collective worker struggles happened in China in recent decades. These struggles have different types including striking and protesting. Based on a statistic analysis, three pairs of relationships among workers, employers and governments are compared with each other. We find out three determinant factors to influence the odds of struggling workers. These factors include the intervention of government, style of struggles and the status of worker's employment.

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From Insurgency to Movement: An Embryonic Labor Movement Undermining Hegemony in South China

2020

ILR Review

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This article provides a new analysis of Chinese labor politics. Most scholars suggest that China has no labor movement because Chinese labor protests are apolitical, cellular, and short-lived, and thus inconsistent with the properties of social movements identified in the political process model. By contrast, the author draws on Antonio Gramsci’s ideas regarding movements undermining hegemony and on ethnographic and archival research to demonstrate that the activities of movement-oriented labor nongovernmental organizations (MLNGOs) coupled with associated labor protests since 2011 constitute the embryo of a counterhegemonic labor movement. MLNGOs have reworked the hegemonic labor law system to undermine the regime’s legal fragmentation of workers, nurtured worker leaders who speak for and represent migrant workers to temporarily substitute for impotent workplace unions, and developed alternative organizational networks of labor organizing that challenged the union’s monopoly. This incipient counterhegemonic movement persisted several years after state repression in late 2015 but was curtailed by another wave of repression in January 2019. The very severity of state repression suggests that a movement countering hegemony has been formed.

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An Emerging Chinese Labor Movement

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How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Determinants of the Struggling Odds of Collective Workers in China

From Insurgency to Movement: An Embryonic Labor Movement Undermining Hegemony in South China

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