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China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They? - A Survey of 1811 Enterprise Union Chairpersons (Paperback)
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China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They? - A Survey of 1811 Enterprise Union Chairpersons (Paperback)
Series: China Policy Series
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This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary
China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been
reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global
economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China's
trade unions are. Based on an extensive, grass-roots survey of
local trade union chairpersons, the book reveals that although
trade unions in foreign owned firms and in firms dealing with
foreign firms are beginning to resemble trade unions in the West,
in the majority of firms a state corporatist model of trade unions
continues, with chairmen appointed by the party, with many of them
occupying simultaneously party and trade union positions, and
thinking it right to do so, and having power bases and networks in
both the party and the trade union, with initiatives for protecting
workers' interests coming from the top down, rather than the bottom
up, and with collective negotiation and democratic participation in
union affairs continuing to be a mere formality. The book shows how
the state - wishing to maintain political stability - continues to
regard itself, legitimated by the concepts of "socialism" and
"proletarian dictatorship", as the sole arbiter of and protector of
workers' rights, with no place for workers protecting their own
interests themselves in the harsh environment of the new market
economy. The book concludes, however, that because the different
model of industrial relations which prevails in foreign owned firms
is formally part of the government system, there is the possibility
that this new more Western model will in time spread more widely.
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