Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective

As the "world's factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations. Anita Chan argues that Chinese labor is too often viewed from a prism of exceptionalism and too rarely examined comparatively, even though valuable insights can be derived by analyzing China's workforce and labor relations side by side with the systems of other nations.The contributors to Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective compare labor issues in China with those in the United States, Australia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Germany, Russia, Vietnam, and Taiwan. They also draw contrasts among different types of workplaces within China. The chapters address labor regimes and standards, describe efforts to reshape industrial relations to improve the circumstances of workers, and compare historical and structural developments in China and other industrial relations systems. Contributors: Frederick Scott Bentley, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Florian Butollo, Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany
Anita Chan, University of Technology, Sydney, and Australian National University
Chris King-chi Chan, City University of Hong Kong
Yu-bin Chiu, National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan
Sean Cooney, University of Melbourne
Mary Huong Thi Evans, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Navjote Khara, Niagara College
Kevin Lin, University of Technology, Sydney
Mingwei Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter Lund-Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School and Nottingham Business School
Boy Lthje, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany and Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and the East-West Center, Honolulu
Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester
Thomas Nice, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience
Tim Pringle, SOAS, University of London
Katie Quan, University of California-Berkeley and Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Susan J. Schurman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kaxton Siu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Xue, East China Normal University, Shanghai