In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy,
China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At
the same time, however, its employment relations system has
undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and
permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice
bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment
with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar
transitions have occurred in other countries, such as Korea,
although perhaps not at such a rapid pace as in China. This shift
echoes the move from "breadwinning" careers to contingent
employment in the postindustrial United States.
In From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary
group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of
informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese
society. This book provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among
workers, unions, NGOs, employers, and the state as they deal with
the new landscape of insecure employment.
Contributors: Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
Baohua Dong, East China University of Politics and Law; Mark W.
Frazier, University of Oklahoma; Mary E. Gallagher, University of
Michigan; Sarosh Kuruvilla, Cornell University; Ching Kwan Lee,
UCLA; Kun-Chin Lin, King's College, London; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey; Albert Park, University of
Oxford; Yuan Shen, Tsinghua University; Sarah Swider, Wayne State
University; Lu Zhang, Temple University
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