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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China - Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market (Hardcover)
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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China - Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in
China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present
global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of
Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment
with policy initiatives that originate in the West, initiatives
such as training programmes, career and psychological counselling,
a web-based national labour-market information network, and
labour-market insurance, and also other employment-related
initiatives such as using community (shequ) organizations as the
base for new mechanisms of governance and informal job generation.
This book examines these initiatives which represent China's
attempt to institutionalize, professionalize and humanize its
approach to governance, drawing heavily on international norms and
standards in employment regulation. Based on extensive original
research including semi-structured interviews, the book argues that
although the Chinese government is not a liberal democracy, it is
increasingly using liberal techniques to govern. The book discusses
the ways in which the government combines the new techniques with
old campaign-style policy techniques, which not only makes the
state's power visible, but also allows it to claim credit for
managing unemployment.
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