2010
DOI: 10.1177/0022185610375514
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Abstract: This article examines how industrial relations have evolved during the last 10 years since Hong Kong became a special administrative region (SAR) in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There have been recent signs that Hong Kong workers may seek to more vigorously defend their collective interests and articulate their demands for protecting their wages and employment conditions. This was illustrated recently by an almost unprecedented case of worker militancy waged by the bar benders in a declining branch of… Show more

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“…Building on this foundation, Hong Kong sociologists have explained the docility of Hong Kong workers by highlighting trade union structures -that is, small, fragmentary unions, and low trade union densities; the hostility of employers to consultation with unions; the political orientation of unions, notably allegiances to the Chinese communist party; and the impact of the colonial state on labor activism. Most of this work has explored the period from the 1980s which was characterised by de-industrialization (Ng & Lee, 2010;Snape & Chan, 1997). In the 1990s, in the absence of effective trade unions, and during some tough times for blue-collar workers, many working-class people 'suffered in silence' (Fosh et al, 1999, p. 18).…”
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“…Building on this foundation, Hong Kong sociologists have explained the docility of Hong Kong workers by highlighting trade union structures -that is, small, fragmentary unions, and low trade union densities; the hostility of employers to consultation with unions; the political orientation of unions, notably allegiances to the Chinese communist party; and the impact of the colonial state on labor activism. Most of this work has explored the period from the 1980s which was characterised by de-industrialization (Ng & Lee, 2010;Snape & Chan, 1997). In the 1990s, in the absence of effective trade unions, and during some tough times for blue-collar workers, many working-class people 'suffered in silence' (Fosh et al, 1999, p. 18).…”
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