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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China - Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market (Paperback)
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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China - Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market (Paperback)
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. This book
argues that although China is not a liberal democracy, it has
turned to neo-liberal forms of governance to deal with
unemployment, which now function alongside pre-existing Chinese
modes of governance. This book examines the initiatives which
represent China's attempt to institutionalize and humanize its
approach to governance: these initiatives include training
programmes; counselling; a web-based national labour-market
information network; insurance; and using community (shequ)
organizations as the base for new mechanisms of governance and
informal job generation. Based on extensive original research
including semi-structured interviews, the book discusses the ways
in which the government combines the new techniques with old
campaign-style policy techniques. The author argues that these
multiple modes of governance make the state's power visible in the
new Chinese labour market, and at the same time run the risk of
policy incoherence or even failure.
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